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jberryhill

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3. "as relayed by"?

Reply to ProgressiveEconomist (Original post)

Tue May 29, 2012, 09:45 AM

May 2012

Try again. Woodward quotes Haig as attributing the line to Kissinger. I have no doubt that Haig would attribute such a view to Kissinger.

This is the Al Haig who also could not read the sequence of presidential succession in the Constitution.

If you want to counter a quote which a person made on national television, then an attribution by one person in relation to a private conversation with a person he despised is pretty thin sauce.

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