Ramifications of President Alexander Haig

One of the highlights of the famed piece of internet allohistory For All Time, is when General Alexander Haig launches a coup against the increasingly insane President Jim Jones and establishes a military dictatorship in the United States for the remainder of the 1980's. However, for as entertaining as that timeline is, it does stretch plausibility. I don't think anyone believes Haig would actually be a dictator. So, my question is, how would General Haig really lead the country if he became President.

For a POD, let's say Reagan picks Al Haig to be his running mate in 1980 instead of George Bush (Bush becomes Secretary of State instead). Hinckley succeeds in assassinating Reagan in 1980. Haig assumes the office of the Presidency (we'll assume he picks Bob Dole to be Vice President, as Haig endorsed Dole over Bush in the 1988 primaries after the General himself dropped out).

What happens next?
 
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I've noted that, too, and not only in For All time. I don't know much about Haig, was he that psychotic ? bad war experiences ? a warmongerer ?
 
The Reagan tax and budget cuts are passed as a memorial to the fallen leader. I don't think his policies would be that different than Reagan but I doubt he would have had Reagan's political skills.
 
The Reagan tax and budget cuts are passed as a memorial to the fallen leader. I don't think his policies would be that different than Reagan but I doubt he would have had Reagan's political skills.

What about some of his more extreme rhetoric he used as Secretary of State, saying the United States should do a "nuclear warning shot" in Europe against the USSR?
 
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