General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. (United States Army, ret.) (Washington Post.)
I always felt Haig got a bum rap for his actions when Reagan was shot.
He knew, Reagan’s aide Lyn Nofziger once said, that “the third paragraph of his obit” would detail his conduct in the hours after President Reagan was shot, on March 30, 1981.
Actually, the NYT waits until paragraph four, though that particular statement does come at the end of the third paragraph.
If the NYT obit is to be believed, he wasn’t much of a politician, and managed to irritate a lot of folks. But Ace of Spades has a good post up on Haig’s military record. He served his country with honor in Korea and Vietnam, which is not something I believe was as well known as it should have been.