February 20, 2010: Former Army General, White House Chief of Staff, and Secretary of State Alexander Haig dies at 85. Haig served as President Nixon’s Chief of Staff beginning in May 1973, amid the Watergate Scandal. He was later tapped by President Reagan for Secretary of State in 1981, before making a failed bid for the Republican nomination for President in 1988.
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