Word: caspar
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...Haig looked upon his first overseas trip as Secretary of State not only as an opportunity to sound out Middle East leaders, but also as a chance to refurbish his image. Haig's journey was just one part of the Administration's road show: Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger was in Europe last week attending a meeting of the Nuclear Planning Group of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
...budget resolution cutting spending for fiscal 1982 by $36.9 billion; that was roughly $2.8 billion more than Reagan had requested. At week's end Secretary of State Alexander Haig took off, on schedule, for a trip to the Middle East, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger left for defense consultations with Western European allies. Altogether, the week's official activity appeared to justify the phrase that Reagan's aides were using while the President was still in the recovery room: "Business as usual...
While the troika set up a mini-command post at the hospital, Haig, Regan, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and National Security Adviser Richard Allen moved to the Situation Room in the White House basement. It has elaborate communications links to U.S. military commanders and embassies throughout the world. CIA Director William Casey and Attorney General William French Smith soon joined the group...
Testifying on Capitol Hill last Thursday, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced that the Soviets had significantly increased their invasion capability, making the situation "far more serious" than before. Next day State Department Spokesman William Dyess warned that Soviet preparedness had reached the point where "they are capable of moving at any time." Vice President George Bush underscored U.S. concern by telling Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, who was in Washington seeking economic aid (see box), that "we follow a policy of nonintervention in Poland's internal affairs, and we are anxious that others do the same...
...left side, Haig proceeded to misrepresent the presidential line of succession. Characterisitcally, he put himself next in line after Bush, ignoring two officials who happen to be elected: the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Haig's willingness to ask Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 to remove the low-level alert he had ordered so the Secretary of State would not look bad in front of the press is just another example of Haig's me-first theory of government...