Alexander Haig hospitalized

[Taverner]

Source: CNN

Alexander Haig hospitalized
Posted: February 19th, 2010 01:28 PM ET
Washington (CNN) - Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig has been admitted to a hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, a hospital spokesman said.

Haig, 85, is at Johns Hopkins Hospital, said the spokesman, Gary Stephenson.

Additional details were unavailable.

Haig was secretary of state during the administration of President Ronald Reagan.


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Couldn't have happened to a bigger bastard...

[randr]

1. If we pray for his non-recovery

would we be good Christians?

[Brickbat]

2. Who's in charge here NOW? FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHO??????????????

[DURHAM D]

3. Senator Byrd? nt

[Taverner]

4. That was a quote from Haig right after Reagan got shot

He tried to take over the Presidency, rather than going through protocol

[DURHAM D]

25. I know...? nt

[closeupready]

5. I'm in charge now.

:rofl:

[BunkerHill24]

10. AHAHA

That's funny! I assume a competent nurse would tell him: "Sir, sit still, I am NOW in charge!"

[Toasterlad]

17. I Knew Before I Even Opened This Thread That I'd Be Too Late To Post "NOW Who's In Charge?"

And yet, my incurable optimism compelled me to open it anyway.

[Brickbat]

23. I'm usually too late, so I'm pleased to have served in this thread.

[Cirque du So-What]

6. I'll express no ill will

but suffice to say I won't be eulogizing the bastid once he kicks the bucket.

[T Wolf]

7. May he soon be reunited with the "man" he tried to replace. No need for heavy clothing where they

will be spending the rest of time (if you believe in that bullshit).

[Taverner]

9. Yep - FTR the man tried to get rid of the Park Service

And fold it all into the USFS. This may sound like a petty grievance, until you realize you cannot log on NPS lands, but you can on USFS lands.

[stlsaxman]

8. Say goodbye, Al.

[Arctic Dave]

11. Are these tears of joy or sympathy I have? I go with tears of joy for five hundred.

[jayfish]

12. Our 41st President...

and one of only five living ex-Presidents. :cry:

Jay

[Taverner]

16. But he was only president in his own mind...

[SDuderstadt]

27. Minor point...

any president who served out their term(s) and neither resigned nor was removed, is actually properly referred to as a "former president". The only officeholder who could really have been described as an "ex-president" was Richard Nixon, who resigned from office rather than face almost certain impeachment by the House.

[jayfish]

28. Point Taken.

Good info to know.

FSH

[Arkana]

13. I have literally nothing to say.

Mostly because I'll say something insulting.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Nobody's in charge here.

[ashling]

15. I got stuck in his driveway in the snow

when I delivered the Sunday New York Times in McLean, Va.

[lapfog_1]

18. The devil(tm) is rubbing his hands in glee... - n/t

[provis99]

19. what happened? Did he swallow some of his own venom?

[COLGATE4]

20. Crazy as a shit-house Rat. NT

[xxqqqzme]

21. Wasn't Haig the one who claimed

nixon was talking to White House past president's portraits. I think he was nixon's CoS.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

26. These old repug goats seem to live forever...

of course they have the best healthcare in the world.

[arbusto_baboso]

22. Well, it can't be heart trouble.....

Being that he doesn't have one.

[Kali]

24. I didn't know he was still alive

[RFKHumphreyObama]

29. "Give me Grenada and I'll turn it into a f***ing parking lot"

Was what he was rumored to have told Reagan when they invaded in 1983

I've heard that Reagan found him too extreme and that's one of the reasons he went. When you're too extreme for a right wing ideologue like Raygun, that's saying something

Another story about Haig was that he assumed that US Senator Spark Matsunaga was a member of a visiting Japanese delegation to the White House and asked him whether he spoke English. Matsunaga replied in the affirmative and then reminded Haig that he had voted for his confirmation in the Senate a few days before