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Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan '40, both of whom were undergraduates during the 300th anniversary (at which the University bestowed scores of honorary degrees), had reportedly been gently inquiring as to whether their boss would receive one as a condition for accepting Harvard's invite to speak at the second convocation on Friday, September...
...festivities. President Andrew Jackson paid a visit to Harvard's 200th birthday party in 1836, President Grover Cleveland stopped by for the 250th celebration in 1886, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 took part in the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936. With Harvard men Donald T. Regan '40 and Caspar W. Weinberger '38 among his inner circle of advisors and planning to attend the ceremony themselves, 350th bigwigs counted on Reagan's appearance at Friday morning's convocation on "The University in a Changing World...
...almost single-handedly developed the Council's machinery, as parliamentarian, vice-chairman, chairman, and member of numerous student and student-faculty committees. Among other achievements, he produced definitive reports on freedom of speech at Harvard, after students pegged Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 with tomatoes; the potential for an honor code at Harvard; and the controversial disciplinary Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. He has also played a major role in establishing the Endowment for Divestiture, an alternative to the Class Gift Fund designed to pressure Harvard to divest its South Africa holdings...
...stopped producing chemical arms in 1969. But Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has insisted that the U.S. must modernize its chemical arsenal to counter the Soviet buildup of these weapons. Congress has stipulated that funding for the new program is contingent on the assent of NATO allies. Some U.S. Congressmen, however, feel that because the approval came from the defense ministers instead of NATO's political council, it did not meet congressional standards for going ahead with the chemical-arms program...
Stockman tells some appalling tales about the haphazard way the actual Reagan economic program of 1981 was shaped. On one occasion, he and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger casually agreed to split the difference between various military-spending proposals and came up with a figure of 7% real growth in the Pentagon budget. Stockman paid little attention to the base figure on which the Pentagon proposed to calculate that 7%. When he saw the actual numbers pointing to military spending of $1.46 trillion over the next five years, Stockman writes, he "nearly had a heart attack." Later the OMB boss...