Word: caspar
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...propitious moment. Relations between the U.S. and its European allies have been particularly strained by worries that Reagan's simplistic East-West world view would never translate into a coherent foreign policy. Compounding the problem were conflicting statements from Washington on sensitive nuclear policy issues. Hawkishly, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced that the U.S. would build a neutron warhead; Secretary of State Alexander Haig immediately noted that no decision had been made to deploy it. Reagan mused aloud to a group of newspaper editors at the White House about a possibility that Western allies dread: a limited nuclear...
Against this seething background, the ill-timed and almost casual comments of President Ronald Reagan, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State Alexander Haig about how NATO would use nuclear weapons in Europe, about how a "limited" nuclear war could be fought, were incendiary. Even though the remarks were only restatements of long-held
...publicly advocating it--hurts both Stockman and the President a great deal. And they came at a particularly inopportune time for this suddenly floundering presidency. There has been vicious infighting between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and National Security Advisor Richard Allen. Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger Jr. '38 can't agree on whether or not NATO plans include a nuclear "warning shot" at the Soviet Union. And the president himself appears to be ignorant about major issues when confront sans note cards at press conferences...
...itself, leaving instead a stark naivete. The wheeler-dealer all of a sudden became sensitive to the machinations of budget politics, the con jobs he had to perform to win votes, as well as the inevitable battles among the members of the cabinet. Stockman lost once to Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38, over the matter of defense cuts, and for a second time (after the Atlantic's article went to press) to Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, who defended the Reagan mandate not to raise taxes against Stockman's protestations for a balanced budget...
...military man, Haig is accustomed to taking orders from higher-ups. With no policy guidelines, he must naturally endeavor to initiate them. In doing so he has often been contradicted by other senior advisors or Cabinet officials such as National Security Advisor, Richard V. Allen, or Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger Jr. '38. Part of the reason many Haig policy pronouncements have been so controversial is that he has continually sought to keep from being upstaged by Allen and Weinberger...