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...conservatives, most of whom are better known as skilled managers than as innovative thinkers. Five can be considered members of the Eastern Republican Establishment. They are Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker, who will be Secretary of Health and Human Services, and four businessmen: Baldrige; Treasury Secretary-designate Donald Regan; William Casey, who will head the CIA; and Transportation Secretary-designate Drew Lewis. Two longtime California friends of Reagan's fill out the group: Caspar Weinberger, chosen as Secretary of Defense, and William French Smith, Attorney General-designate. Even they are not typical Sunbelt hardliners; in fact, their selections reinforce...
...team were surprised and soured by the decision. They felt that the post should have gone to former Treasury Undersecretary Charls Walker or Reagan Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan. The selection of Regan, 61, seems to have been the handiwork of Reagan's campaign chairman, CIA Director-designate William Casey, who got to know the Merrill Lynch chief when Casey was chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the early 1970s...
...cigarette ashes. But behind that disheveled appearance lay a keen and free-wheeling mind that, by war's end, enabled him to put together a network of 150 agents in Nazi Germany. Now, after a highly successful career as tax lawyer, businessman and Government official, William Joseph Casey, 67, still looking rumpled in the best-quality dark blue suit, is returning to his first profession, as director of Central Intelligence...
...Casey displayed so much energy as a child in New York City's Borough of Queens that playmates nicknamed him Cyclone. A 1934 graduate of Fordham University, he studied law at St. John's University at night while working as a city home-relief investigator during the day. After the war, he set out to make his fortune by practicing law for a New York firm and by writing a series of how-to books for fellow strivers (sample title: How to Raise Money to Make Money...
...first batch of nominees deserve special recognition for past achievement--Caspar W. Weinberger '38 seems sure to bring with him from Bechtel Corporation a happy view of the close harmony in which government and industry must work. And then there's William J. Casey, who earned the top job at the Central Intelligence Agency with his deft handling of the Republican's presidential campaign. Or William F. Smith, Reagan's personal attorney, who will run the Justice Department--Reagan, it seems, has forgotten the problems one of his Republican predecessors experienced when he put his closest political cronies in charge...