"effective at noon tomorrow [Aug. 9, 1974],"... Al Haig gets along better with incoming Pres. Ford.

I think Al Haig did an excellent job in difficult circumstances as Nixon's Chief-of-Staff during the Watergate days.

What if he and Ford had gotten along?

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PS Jerry Ford assumed the presidency at 12:00 noon on Friday, August 9, 1974.
 
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https://io9.gizmodo.com/that-time-the-cia-and-howard-hughes-tried-to-steal-a-so-1561583789

The "mining ship" was built by the Howard Hughes corporation and had the cover story of mining manganese nodules from the ocean floor.

You can also do a google search for "Project Azorian."
 
But . . . we may have wanted to take a pass because a Soviet program of having nukes on subs makes us safer, too, and let me explain.

In the damnable logic of the cold war, vulnerability to first strike is a big deal and "launch under warning" is a really scary dilemma for either us or the Soviets to be facing. Purely out of self-interest, we don't want the Soviets to face this dilemma. And so, because subs are much less vulnerable to a first strike, hell, we may have just wanted to the leave the Soviet sub program alone.
 
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