Haig snarls at Senate,calls scandal ‘stupid’
WASHINGTON (AP) - Alex
ander M. Haig called the Water
gate scandal “illegal and
stupid” Tuesday, and denied he
was involved in any way as a
trusted aide to President Ri
chard M.Nixon.
Haig, who is President-elect
Ronald Reagan's nominee to be
secretary of state, portrayed
himself instead as a White
House chief of staff who fought
to keep Nixon from becoming
enmeshed in criminal acts in the
final months of his presidency.
On the fourth day of his con
firmation hearings before the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, the retired four-star
general and former NATO com
mander exploded in anger
under persistent questioning
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from Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes,
D-Md., who sought Haig's
"value judgments” about the
right and wrongs of Watergate.
"I never went along with or
supported anything I believed
to be illegal,” said Haig, who
testified under oath at his own
request.
"Suggestions came up from
time to time," Haig said. “And
on every occasion I fought it,
rejected it or prevented it.
"I have not ever indulged in
something that is wrong or il
legal. ... Others did. That’s clear.
The record is clear We saw the
volumes of it. ... Do you expect
me to endorse what was done?
No way ...”
Haig acknowledged that
"mistakes were made," but said
he wasn't at the White House
when the break-in at the
Democratic National Committee
took place in June 1972 or when
senior White House officials
tried to cover up evidence.
"Mistakes were made,” he
said. "No one is discounting the
fact that they were made. I didn’t
make them. I wasn't there when
they were made. I happened to
inherit the situation and the
consequences of those mis
takes."
Later in the day, Sen. Barry
Goldwater, R-Ariz., urged the
committee to approve Haig for
Senate confirmation and Sen.
Lowell Weicker, R-Conn., asked
rejection of Haig’s nomination.
Goldwater said the country
owes Haig a debt of gratitude.
‘‘If Nixon had stood for im
peachment, I doubt if this
country would have lived
through the eight months that
would have taken," Goldwater
said.
"Haig saw his duty and tried
to get Nixon to quit before he
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Weicker said that "in the ab
sence of their superior’s adher
ence to the law, honorable men
either speak up or get out.”
He said Haig did not do that,
"and I therefore assume him to
have either lacked integrity,
disdained the Constitution or
unquestioningly followed
orders."
Sen Paul Tsongas, D-Mass.,
said he and other senators were
"pleading” for a promise from
Haig that "these kinds of stains
on America will not happen
again.”
Sarbanes asked Haig repea
tedly whether he considered
Watergate wrong The senator
said he was concerned more
about Haig’s attitude toward
Nixon’s "abuses” than about
whether Haig was directly in
volved.
Other senators joined in ask
ing that question, and finally
Haig replied, "It was both illegal
and stupid And I think if
President Nixon were here, he
would say it was stupid."
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