The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Alexander HaigYou know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam.
Alexander HaigI'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
Alexander Haig