Word: caspar
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...that Reagan had not given any serious thought to the next four years, for fear of jinxing his re-election drive. Last week the President and his aides set about the task of writing a script for the second act of the Reagan revolution. The dramatis personae (George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, Donald Regan, David Stockman), as well as the story line (Central America, arms control, deficits), had a familiar ring...
Reagan's aides are divided into two camps. The True Believers-White House Counsellor Ed Meese, Interior Secretary and former National Security Adviser William Clark, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger-want to continue pressing a hard line against Communism and giving free rein to supply-side economics. The Pragmatists-White House Chief of Staff James A. Baker, Deputy Chief Michael Deaver, Presidential Aide Richard Darman, Budget Director David Stockman and Secretary of State George Shultz-see the top priorities as reducing the deficit and reaching an arms-control accord with the Soviets...
Reagan can be decisive: I remember speaking with Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense, just after the February decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Lebanon. Essentially there had been a conflict between State and Defense-Defense had wanted to get out of Lebanon even before the October massacre, while State kept insisting our presence was necessary. While preparing to watch Lauren Bacall perform in Woman of the Year Sunday afternoon, Feb. 5, Weinberger had been summoned to an immediate meeting of the National Security Council at the White House. The Republican politicians had long wanted out of Lebanon ("The forget period...
...negotiation; he would like to leave a legacy of statesmanship. The big question is not so much what Reagan wants in a second term but whether he knows how to get it. His aides have been, and remain, sharply divided, from the Cabinet-level disagreements of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz down to the trenches of the bureaucracy...
...meantime, U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger arrived for two days of talks with Israeli leaders. On leaving, he announced that the Administration had decided to grant Israel access to the advanced U.S. technology needed for the Lavi fighter jet, which is expected to become the workhorse of the Israeli air force in the 1990s. He said the U.S. would also consider meeting Israeli requests to buy three diesel submarines and to sell Israeli-made 120-mm mortars and ammunition to the U.S. Army...