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...quintessential performance by a supremely confident yet self-effacing man, ever gracious in manner, polite in speech, but implacably stubborn. As Senator after Senator fired questions at him, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger coolly presented the Administration's case for the MX missile before the Armed Services Committee last week. Never once did Weinberger lose his temper or raise his voice. And no matter how heated the interrogation, Weinberger did not budge a millimeter from his position. "Once his mind is made up, he is impossible to bend," says a close associate at the Pentagon. "He is a gentle...
...Pentagon that would cut the budget deficit. Instead, Weinberger gave too much control of the budget to the individual services, then tended to accept all the major weapons on the Pentagon's "wish list." Says Democratic Representative Albert Gore Jr., who helped lead the assault on the MX: "He's lost all credibility. Instead of Cap the Knife, he's Cap the Ladle...
...with last week's defeat for the MX in the House, Weinberger has perhaps begun to show a willingness to compromise in order to save the missile altogether. Said a Government official: "Maybe the cold gray dawn of reality is finally coming to the Defense Department...
Wherever one looked in Washington last week, there was intellectual ferment. Some ideas were not doing well, notably the plan to dense-pack the new Peacekeeper (MX) nuclear missile. But that is part of the process. The A.E.I. 's slogan for Public Policy Week was "Competition of ideas is fundamental to a free society...
...Aspin, 44, Democratic Representative from Wisconsin, on the House refusal to fund production of five MX missiles: "It doesn't mean the MX is dead. If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always...