"I Am in Control Here"

"Mr. Haig was a rare American breed: a political general. His bids for the presidency quickly came undone. But his ambition to be president was thinly veiled, and that was his undoing. 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."

Tim Weiner in The New York Times reports the death of Alexander Haig.