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To: Always Right
Biden would be the first to claim he is in charge

I remember that scene from the Nixon Watergate resignation, with General Alexander Haig huffing and puffing, in a press conference shortly after the announcement of RMN's resignation, "I'm in charge here!"

The US and history didn't treat too kindly Gen. Haig's desperate-sounding, out-of-turn, usurping claim.

HF

108 posted on 07/17/2009 6:24:06 AM PDT by holden
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To: holden
I remember that scene from the Nixon Watergate resignation, with General Alexander Haig huffing and puffing, in a press conference shortly after the announcement of RMN's resignation, "I'm in charge here!"

I believe it was when Haig was SOS under Reagan he said that.

119 posted on 07/17/2009 6:27:54 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: holden
I remember that scene from the Nixon Watergate resignation, with General Alexander Haig huffing and puffing, in a press conference shortly after the announcement of RMN’s resignation, “I'm in charge here!”

It was The Day Reagan Was Shot.

136 posted on 07/17/2009 6:38:05 AM PDT by McGruff (Paid for by Fred Robinson / Jim Thompson 2012)
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To: holden
Your memory is pretty bad. I guess that happens with age! LOL!

Alexander Haig was in the Army during Watergate. The incident you're referring to happened when he was Secretary of State under Reagan, and in the immediate aftermath of Reagan being shot. He was telling the press he was in charge of the local situation, NOT usurping the authority of the Vice President as the press made it out to be.

224 posted on 07/17/2009 7:43:52 AM PDT by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( The Constitution needs No interpreting, only APPLICATION!)
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To: holden
I remember that scene from the Nixon Watergate resignation, with General Alexander Haig huffing and puffing, in a press conference shortly after the announcement of RMN's resignation, "I'm in charge here!"

That was when Reagan was shot.

230 posted on 07/17/2009 7:48:04 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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