Who supposedly took pills away that could possibly have been used by Nixon to commit suicide in the closing days of Watergate?

JaneofGaunt

Alexander Haig. From a Time magazine article.... Facing the end, Nixon talked openly of suicide to his trusted aide, Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. "You fellows in your business," Nixon told the temporarily retired general, "you have a way of handling problems like this. Somebody leaves a pistol in the drawer. I don't have a pistol." It was, suggest the authors, "as if he were half asking to be given one." After that incident, Haig passed orders that Nixon not be allowed any pills, fearing he might take an overdose. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,913977,00.html#ixzz0gEapOiau Feb 21 10, 10:10 PM

star_gazer

Correct. Al Haig R.I.P. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/politics/21haig.html Feb 21 10, 11:39 PM