Word: caspar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Armed with red, white and blue charts detailing the Soviet military threat, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger marched up to Capitol Hill to erect a defiant rampart around his $239 billion share of the $848 billion budget. After three days of crossfire from Congressmen of both parties, the Iron Duke of Defense emerged battered but unbending. "We simply cannot reduce defense spending any further without undermining the security of the United States," he adamantly declared...
...from Capitol Hill, flak so heavy that the fate of the program, expected to cost up to $40 billion, may now be in some doubt. The basic problem is a familiar one: cost overruns. But the powerful House Appropriations Committee, in a stinging letter of complaint to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, contends that the Navy has compounded its errors by trying to conceal the extent of the overruns, perhaps illegally. The charge comes at a bad time for the Pentagon, which has been maintaining that every bit of economizing has been done to squeeze its ever rising budget...
...been its mood and manner, the theme of bipartisanship that ran through it. The absence of accusation imparted a tone of cool reason. If we can believe this subtle melody, then Reagan may at last be ready to be President of all the people, not just of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Senator Jesse Helms...
...collaborative reply, the military chiefs concluded that the new Pershing missile was important though not essential. But that answer to Reagan's question, routed first through Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, never reached the President. Instead, Weinberger had an aide, Richard Perle, paraphrase the Joint Chiefs' memo and graft it onto an elaborate Pentagon condemnation of the Nitze-Kvitsinsky plan. A month after the Swiss mountainside tête-à-tête, Nitze and Rostow were chastised by Clark in a memo to Shultz for exceeding their negotiating authority. Clark denies that the memo was a reprimand...
...chunk of the saving would be provided by the payroll-tax hike and delay in benefit increases recommended last week by the Social Security commission. The rest would come from an $8 billion reduction in planned military spending already announced by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, skipping of a pay increase for federal employees, a delay in cost of living increases for federal civilian and military as well as Social Security pensioners, and further reductions in such social programs as food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. Overall, the aim is to freeze most nondefense spending at fiscal 1983 levels in dollar...