Word: caspar
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Haig was pushed out of office for pursuing answers to geopolitical problems without resorting to the emotionalism that dominates the Reagan Administration. My generation is not secure under the hawkish pursuits of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
...look now, but American foreign policy has just been sold to the highest bidder. And the winner is Saudi Arabia, with two former executives of the Bechtel Group, Caspar Weinberger and George Shultz, in Reagan's Cabinet...
...Reagan stating that if the U.S. sent its Marines to Lebanon, the U.S.S.R. might counter with moves of its own in the region. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee called President Reagan to express his concern about the plan. Even within the Administration there were qualms. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who has consistently opposed committing U.S. troops abroad, expressed support for the decision. He also noted, however, that it was a "risky business" and stressed that any involvement would be "a very limited, short-term, specific kind of mission." In general, most lawmakers were willing to support the plan...
...beginning of the Administration, Reagan and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger wanted to put bilateral disarmament efforts indefinitely on hold, while they tried to remedy what they saw as inequality in the strategic balance and the vulnerability of American forces-that is, arm in order to parley. Largely because of the freeze movement and public fears of nuclear war, the Administration began to look for ways that, in its view, would restore equality by means of arms control. In other words, arm and parley at the same time-a fairly traditional concept, one that has kept both SALT and the arms...
...Atomic Energy Commission and later head of the CIA under John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; Parker Hart, former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and Charls Walker, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon. Today two powerful members of the Reagan Administration are former top Bechtel officers: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Deputy Secretary of Energy W. Kenneth Davis...