Alexander Haig?Remember Al Haig This article is about the pianist; for the U.S. general & politician see Alexander Haig. Alan Warren Haig (19 July 1924–16 November 1982) was an American jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop. Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey. , Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of State? As a negotiating ploy, he would regularly threaten to resign if the Administration's internal decision-making process went against him. Suddenly one day, to his amazement, the Administration accepted his offer of resignation. Anne Krueger, Washington's most senior appointee APPOINTEE. A person who is appointed or selected for a particular purpose; as the appointee under a power, is the person who is to receive the benefit of the trust or power. to the International Monetary Fund, is the Al Haig of the Bush Administration. Krueger is a friend of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice going back to their days at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . At the IMF IMF See: International Monetary Fund IMF See International Monetary Fund (IMF). she has used the threat of resignation on a number of occasions as a negotiating ploy. But the string may be running out. A senior Bush Administration official recently voiced privately: "The next time she pulls that stunt and threatens to resign, we're going to accept it." |
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