Word: caspar
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...piece to the inner puzzle turned out to be Caspar Weinberger, 63, who from the beginning was almost certain to enter the Cabinet. "Cap the Knife" Weinberger acquired his fearsome nickname as a budget slasher in 1968 when he was Reagan's finance director in California, and he embellished his reputation as Nixon's OMB director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Weinberger is a devoted advocate of the inner circle idea, having worked under a similar arrangement with Reagan in Sacramento...
...Thursday, Reagan ended some of the suspense building around his protracted search for a Cabinet and announced eight appointments. They included: Donald T. Reagan '40, secretary of the treasury; Caspar W. Weinberger '38, secretary of defense; William French Smith, Harvard Law '42, attorney general; Andrew (Drew) L. Lewis Jr., Harvard Business '55, secretary of transportation; and Rep. David A. Stockman (R-Mich.), director of the Office of Management and Budget, Harvard Divinity...
...accord with the ExCab format, Reagan has reportedly selected the secretaries of State, Defense, the Treasury and the Attorney General--Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., Caspar W. Weinberger '38, Walter B. Wriston and William French Smith respectively--as his "inner ring" of advisers...
...Washington establishment, his personal advisers met in Los Angeles to consider potential appointees to the Cabinet. Two members of the advisory team are themselves under consideration: William Simon, a former Secretary of the Treasury who is widely regarded as the leading choice to get his old job back, and Caspar Weinberger, top aide to both Reagan in Sacramento and Richard Nixon in Washington, who seems to be setting a record for the number of jobs anyone is being tipped for (Secretary of State, Treasury or Defense; Director of the Office of Management and Budget). Simon and Weinberger excused themselves...
Above all, Reagan hopes to convince Americans that he is going to follow a steady policy of combatting inflation, instead of the unsettling zigzags of the Carter Administration. Says Caspar Weinberger, Reagan's top budget adviser: "The first year is terribly important in setting the tone...