Haig became a bigtime shill for China. Won’t be missed.
There was an author on C-SPAN recently who claimed that during the Nixon administration when Haig was advising Nixon he was secretly undermining Nixon’s Vietnam policy by passing information to people who disagreed with it (at the Pentagon, I think).
Sad he went that direction in his later years. Other than that he seems like a very class act.
Haig was the aide-de-camp to General Edward "Ned" Almond, a MacArthur pet and commander of X Corps during the early part of the war. He was in the room when MacArthur and Almond were discussing the then-proposed landing at Inchon with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This quote from his autobiography is worth remembering, IMO:
"I realized that I had witnessed something that would go down in history, a Cincinnatian act of moral courage. Some years passed before I fully understood the lesson it contained; that when you are in a position of trust and a course you know to be right is questioned for political reasons, you must act on your own convictions based on your own experience, because that is your duty to the American people. It was not vainglory but wisdom that motivated MacArthur. He believed that the Inchon landing would succeed, and that it would save 100,000 lives. As events were to prove, he was right when everyone else was wrong."