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Alexander Haig General Haig graduated from the US. Military Academy in 1947, was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Army, and advanced through a variety of military assignments, including service in Japan, Korea, Europe and Vietnam. He attended Notre Dame University, pursued graduate studies in business administration at Columbia University in 1954-55 and received a Master's Degree in International Relations from Georgetown University in 1962. He served in the Pentagon from 1962 to 1965, where his positions included Military Assistant to the Secretary of the Army and Deputy Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. He served in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967, receiving the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism. In January 1969, he was assigned to be Senior Military Advisor to the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. He was promoted to full General in 1972. During his four years in the White House ending in 1973, he made 14 trips to Southeast Asia as the personal emissary of the President to negotiate the Vietnam ceasefire and the return of the U.S. prisoners of war. He also coordinated preparations for President Nixon's historic visit to China. General Haig was serving as Vice Chief of Staff of the Anny when President Nixon appointed him in May 1973 to rebuild the White House staff. Although this was to be a temporary position, the President subsequently named him White House Chief of Staff, at which point he retired from the military after 26 years of active service. He served in the White House until October 1974, when President Ford recalled him to active duty as Commander-in-Chief, U.S. European Command. Two months later, General Haig was also appointed Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. In that position, he was responsible for the integrated military forces of the then 13-member Nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He resigned his post effective June 30, 1979 and retired from the Army. General Haig was elected President and Chief Operating Officer of United Technologies Corporation and a member of its Board of Directors on December 21, 1979. Following his election on November 4, 1980, President-elect Ronald Reagan nominated General Haig to be his Secretary of State. The Senate subsequently confirmed General Haig and he was sworn in as the Nation's 59th Secretary of State on January 22, 1981. He resigned from this position on July 5, 1982. He was an official candidate (1987-88) for the nomination of the Republican Party for the presidency of the United States. General Haig is currently Chairman of his own private firm, Worldwide Associates, Inc., based in Washington, DC. Worldwide Associates, Inc. assists public and private corporations both here and abroad in developing and implementing marketing and acquisition strategies in addition to providing strategic advice on the domestic and international political, economic and security environment as will affect global commercial activities. Worldwide Associates is also involved in venture capital and international construction projects. General Haig was a founding Director of America Online, Inc. and now serves on the Board of Directors of Compuserve, Inc. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Interneuron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., MGM Mirage, Inc" and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. He is an Honorary Senior Advisor to the China Ocean Shipping Group Company (COSCO) and a senior advisor to several multinational corporations including United Technologies Corporation. He is the host of his own weekly television program, "World Business Review." With a personal interest in the further education of future leaders of our nation, General Haig has been a Visiting Statesman and Executive at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; a member of the Advisory Board of Tulane University's U.S.-Asian Forum; a Chubb Fellow at Yale University; and a guest lecturer at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, New York; the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Northern Michigan University, Marquette, Michigan; Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska; Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and other institutions of higher learning. Since resigning as Secretary of State, General Haig has served on the President's Commission for Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission); the President's Commission for Chemical Warfare Review; and the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. General Haig is the author of Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy based on his over three decades of experience at the highest levels of our government and in particular, drawing upon his tenure as Secretary of State. It was published by MacMillan Publishing Company in the United States and by Wiedenfeld Publishing Company in the United Kingdom in April 1984 and has been published in France, Italy, West Germany and Japan. In June 1992, Warner Books published General Haig's second book, an autobiography, a history of the Cold War, with a vision of the future, entitled: Inner Circles: How America Changed the World - A Memoir. General Haig is an Honorary Member of the Board of the Atlantic Council of the United States; a member of the Board of Governors of the Foreign Policy Association; a life member of the Navy League, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. He is a member of the Board of the Foreign Policy Research Institute; a member of the Board of the MacArthur Memorial Foundation; a member of the International Advisory Board, Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies; a member of the Lay Commission on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy; and a member of the Board of the Jamestown Foundation. General Haig is also a member of the Advisory Board of the European Institute for Peace and Security; a member of the Advisory Committee of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Arthur F. Bums Fellowship, and a member of the Board of Advisors for C/Media, the Corporation for Maintaining Editorial Diversity in America. He is a member of the Board of Advisors and a Life Member of the National Military Family Association; a member of the National Advisory Council, George Washington University; a member of the Board of Advisors, University of Virginia Center for Law and National Security, a Member of the National Advisory Council of The Texas Heart Institute, and a member of the Board of Directors of the World Heart Foundation. He is also an Honorary Member of the Board of Trustees of the American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, a member of the Honorary Board of the American Friends of Rabin Medical Center, and an Honorary Member of the Board of the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya Israel. General Haig serves as Vice President of the Pilgrims of the United States. He is an Honorary Member of the National Defense University Foundation Board of Directors; an Honorary Advisor of the Wallenberg Committee of Greater Philadelphia, Inc., and a member of the American Association of Master Knights of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, Rochester University, Rochester, New York; and an Honorary Advisor to the Citizen's Network for Foreign Affairs and a Member of the Society of Logistics Engineers. He is also a member of The Chosen Few; a member of the German-American Advisory Board; a member of tile Advisory Board of the Free Congress Foundation Center for Conservative Governance; a Charter Member of the Centurions; a member of the American Advisory Council of The Korea Society; and a member of Tile Publication Committee, Crisis Magazine/Journal. He is also 8 founding member of the Board of American Committee for Peace in Chechnya. General Haig is a recipient of Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Niagara University, Boston College, St. Anselm's College, the University of Utah, Western State School of Law, Loyola College in Baltimore, Fairfield University, Stetson University College of Law, and Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He also was awarded the Ministerii Publici Doctorem from Syracuse University; the Hillsdale Freedom Leadership Award from Hillsdale College and an honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from Haifa University, Israel. Other honors presented to General Haig include: -Charles Evans Hughes Gold Medal Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews -Dwight D. Eisenhower Distinguished Service Award and Citation of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States -Hap Arnold Award of the U.S. Air Force Association -James Forrestal Award of the National Security Industrial Association -David Sarnoff Award of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association -William Penn Award of the Penn Club of Washington -Hall of Heroes Medallion of the Chapel of the Four Chaplains -Bob Hope Four -Star Civilian Award from Valley Forge Military Academy -1984 Distinguished Diplomat Award from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service -Gold Medal from the National Institute of Social Sciences -Distinguished Graduate Award, U.S. Military Academy 1996 Among his many military decorations, General Haig holds the Distinguished Service Cross, the Defense Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Purple Heart, and decorations from Belgium, the Federal Republic of Germany, Morocco, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Portugal. General Haig was born December 2, 1924 in Philadelphia, attended St. Joseph's Preparatory School and graduated from Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. He is married to the former Patricia Fox. They have three children: Alexander, Brian and Barbara and eight grandchildren.
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