Haig's CoupWhen General Alexander M. Haig Jr. returned to the White House on May 3, 1973, he found the Nixon administration in worse shape than he had imagined. President Richard Nixon, reelected in an overwhelming landslide just six months earlier, had accepted the resignations of his top aidesthe chief of staff H. R. Haldeman and the domestic policy chief John Ehrlichmanjust three days earlier. Haldeman and Ehrlichman had enforced the presidents will and