Alexander Haig | 1924-2010

President-elect Bill Clinton meets with former secretaries of State, from left, Alexander Haig, George P. Shultz, William Rogers and Edmund Muskie in Little Rock, Ark.  (Stephan Savoia / Associated Press)

Alexander Haig, left, receives an Architect of Peace award at the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda in 1998. With him, from left, are his wife, Pat, California Atty. Gen. Dan Lungren, William E. Simon and wife Toni, and Judie and George L. Argyros.  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Alexander Haig, with Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, gestures toward former Rep. Barber B. Conable Jr., who had failed to mention him while introducing attendees at a gathering in 1999.  (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)

Alexander Haig leaves the Pentagon in 2001.  (Shawn Thew / AFP/Getty Images)

Former secretaries of State, from left, Madeleine Albright, Warren Christopher, Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger at the dedication ceremony of the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington, Va., in 2002.  (Joe Marquette / Associated Press)

Alexander Haig, fourth from right, joins President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and a host of former Cabinet secretaries in the Oval Office in 2006.  (Evan Vucci / Associated Press)

From right, Alexander Haig, Henry Kissinger, Jack Valenti and Theodore Sorensen during a conference titled “Vietnam and the Presidency” at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston in 2006.  (Lisa Poole / Associated Press)