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...first-ever newsletter this fall, The Advocates for Harvard ROTC, which numbers among its supporters former Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger ’38 as well as about 1000 alumni, praised Summers as someone who “pierced the thirty-year dark cloud of disdain and intolerance that enveloped Harvard ROTC...
November 29, 1972: Nixon names three alumni to his cabinet, Elliot L. Richardson ’41, Former Crimson President Caspar W. Weinberger ’38 and Roy L. Ash Harvard Business School...
...Johnson's of Jefferson Davis fueled his impeachment; Gerald Ford's of Richard Nixon helped cost him his re-election. But while Johnson and Ford paid a price in their time, history has also found larger purposes in those decisions. Even the elder Bush's Christmas 1992 pardon of Caspar Weinberger after the Iran-contra scandal--which had a self-serving element, since a trial might have focused new attention on Bush's role--found a larger rationale. Those earlier pardons "were attempts to put an escapade behind the country, to heal the wound, to bring the country together," says...
George W. Bush has kept quiet about Clinton's pardons, knowing he will want to issue a few of his own. His father, after losing re-election, pardoned Caspar Weinberger and five other Iran-contra players. Independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, kept in the dark until those pardons were announced, accused Bush of trying to keep himself off the witness stand. Clinton can hope the memory of his pardons will fade just as quickly...
...After all, Powell is not averse to pressing the emotional buttons that attach to his "noble outsider" appeal, moves that reveal important clues as to how he made his way in the corridors of power. Questioned about his role as a top aide to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger during the Iran-Contra scandal - in which capacity he'd helped facilitate the CIA's acquisition of a shipment of missiles to be sent to Iran to help secure the release of American hostages in Lebanon - Powell replied, "I was his faithful Indian companion." What's most notable here is less...