In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.

Haig has been largely credited with keeping the government running while President Nixon was preoccupied with Watergate and was essentially seen as the " acting president " during Nixon 's last few months in office .
Haig has been praised by many people by keeping the government running during the Watergate scandal that brought down Nixon .

The Italian National Institute of Statistics ( Italian : Istituto Nazionale di Statistica ; Istat ) is the main producer of official statistics in Italy .
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica is the national statistical institute of Italy .

During that time he was an outspoken critic of left-wing tendencies in the German student movement and particular accused the governing Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) of being too soft on left-wing extremists .

He often spoke against the left-wing ideas in German society and accused the governing SPD of being to soft on left-wing extremists .