The papers of Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr., (1924-2010) span the years 1962-1982, with the largest concentration between the years 1973-1982. The collection covers his years of service as military assistant to Henry Kissinger, deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs, chief of White House staff, the brief period he was vice chief of staff of the United States. Army, his appointment as Supreme Allied Commander Europe, and his term as secretary of state during the Reagan administration. The papers consist of briefing books, correspondence, memoranda and notes, office files, speeches and writings, subject files, scrapbooks of photographs, and printed matter. The collection is organized into eighteen series: White House Files; Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army; North Atlantic Treaty Organization/U.S. European Command; Post-Military File; Department of State; Miscellany; Classified; Oversize Classified; Top Secret; Sensitive Compartmented Information (Classified); Sensitive Compartmented Information (Top Secret); Restricted Data (Classified); Restricted Data (Top Secret); NATO Classified; NATO Classified (Cosmic Top Secret); NATO Classified Restricted Data-Atomal (Secret); Oversize; and Artifact
