"You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev - beating down of Jack Kennedy in Vienna, that President Kennedy believed that we had to join the battle for the Third World, and the next crisis that developed in that regards was Vietnam."
Alexander Haig was an American military officer and public official who served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1981 to 1982. He also held senior NATO and White House posts, including Supreme Allied Commander Europe. His career linked military command and Cold War-era diplomacy.