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Article: Don't play poker with Al Haig
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 14, 1987
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Several years ago, walking through a Las Vegas casino, I paused
to kibitz a poker game. Four of the players might have been carved
out of wax for Madame Tussaud: They were immobile, impassive,
inscrutable. The fifth fellow was having a lively time. He was
grinning, chuckling, wiggling in his chair. Only his eyes were
unsmiling. In front of him was the biggest stack of chips.
I thought of that poker player the other day in talking with
Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., candidate for the Republican presidential
nomination. He laughs easily, he chuckles in private enjoyment of
unheard jokes, he is "call me Al" informal. When the conversation
gets to questions of foreign policy, war and peace, he ...