Word: caspar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Caspar Weinberger, the prospective Secretary of Defense, contended before the Senate Armed Services Committee that a "gap" existed in the U.S.-Soviet balance of nuclear weapons. He endorsed Reagan's plans to boost defense spending, but rejected proposals to hike the budget by a fixed percentage each year, as some conservative Senators have suggested...
...previously announced appointments, the group by and large met Reagan's test of demonstrated ability and constituted an interesting mix of experience and temperament. Several of the appointees are members in good standing of the Establishment, and five even attended that citadel of Eastern elitism, Harvard: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, Attorney General William French Smith, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, Management and Budget Director David Stockman. A few have had Washington experience: Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Weinberger, Kirkpatrick and Watt. Others are outsiders: Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, Block and Edwards. The Cabinet is also...
...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 a surprisingly strong Ivy League cast in Reagan's official family...
That longstanding mutual admiration is a prime reason why the President-elect last week named Caspar Willard Weinberger, 63, to be Secretary of Defense. To some officials in Washington, "Cap the Knife" seemed an odd choice. The expenditure-cutting ax he wielded so zestfully first for Reagan in California and then for Nixon in Washington may gather some dust at the Pentagon, where Reagan plans a huge military buildup. Moreover, Weinberger's firsthand knowledge of weapons and military strategy apparently is confined to whatever he picked up poring over Defense Department budgets eight to ten years ago; his current...
...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...