Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardware dictate strategy, with a resulting surfeit of gold-plated weapons systems. Indeed, instead of getting a firm grip on the procurement process, Weinberger has, if anything, given more leeway to the Joint Chiefs. Says one longtime acquaintance of Weinberger's: "The service chiefs simply run circles around Cap...
...technique in selling his budgets is simplicity itself: arrive at a total and keep insisting that it is uncuttable. Every year at budget time, other Administration operatives pressure Weinberger to pare back his spending request. The President invariably sides with Weinberger. He continues to think of him as Cap the Knife, a budgetmaker who does not ask for anything that is not necessary. Says Frank Carlucci, Weinberger's deputy for two years and now a Sears, Roebuck executive: "It's that constituency of one that makes all the difference for Cap...
...same committee hearing, beneath eyes hooded in apparent boredom, have not worn well on Capitol Hill. "It's like there's a tape recorder in his head," complains a Republican Senator. "You hear the same thing again and again." A former employee thinks that may be the real Cap, describing Weinberger as "an automaton, a robot...
...culture of the Eastern liberal Establishment. Weinberger loved that world and considered himself a part of it." The Weinbergers have since sold their California home and purchased one on Maine's Mount Desert Island, a bastion of old-line Yankees. Daughter Arlin, a | utility employee, is a Californian; Son Cap Jr., a public relations executive who was once president of the Operation Match computer dating service, lives in Washington...
...speech late last year, Weinberger listed his criteria for committing troops to combat, including a reasonable expectation of congressional and public support, which are more restrictive than those of Secretary of State George Shultz. Some critics complained that by Cap's criteria, U.S. power would be unsheathed only in guaranteed no-lose situations. In part the speech was the military's requiem for Viet Nam. But viewed in another way, which Weinberger doubtless did, it was also a warning to reserve the use of armed force to occasions worthy of Churchillian fire and vision...