Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office by Locker, Ray

Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office

When General Alexander M. Haig Jr. returned to the White House on May 3, 1973, he found...
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Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office by Locker, Ray

Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office

$74.63

Haig's Coup: How Richard Nixon's Closest Aide Forced Him from Office

$74.63
Author: Ray Locker
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
When General Alexander M. Haig Jr. returned to the White House on May 3, 1973, he found the Nixon administration in worse shape than he had imagined. President Richard Nixon, reelected in an overwhelming landslide just six months earlier, had accepted the resignations of his top aides--the chief of staff H. R. Haldeman and the domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman--just three days earlier.

Haldeman and Ehrlichman had enforced the president's will and protected him from his rivals and his worst instincts for four years. Without them, Nixon stood alone, backed by a staff that lacked gravitas and confidence as the Watergate scandal snowballed. Nixon needed a savior, someone who would lift his fortunes while keeping his White House from blowing apart. He hoped that savior would be his deputy national security adviser, Alexander Haig, whom he appointed chief of staff. But Haig's goal was not to keep Nixon in office--it was to remove him.

In Haig's Coup, Ray Locker uses recently declassified documents to tell the true story of how Haig orchestrated Nixon's demise, resignation, and subsequent pardon. A story of intrigues, cover-ups, and treachery, this incisive history shows how Haig engineered the "soft coup" that ended our long national nightmare and brought Watergate to an end.

Author: Ray Locker
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 05/01/2019
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.30h x 9.00w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781640120358


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2019
Foreword 04/26/2019

About the Author
Ray Locker is the former Washington enterprise editor at USA Today, where he directed investigative reporting out of the Washington bureau. His work as a reporter and editor has been nominated for two Pulitzer Prizes. He is the author of Nixon's Gamble: How a President's Own Secret Government Destroyed His Administration.


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