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DIED. CASPAR WEINBERGER, 88, wry, intellectual veteran public servant whose long record of toil in the White Houses of Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan was marred by a late, rare blemish: a 1992 indictment for allegedly covering up facts in the Iran-contra scandal, which he vigorously denied and for which he was pardoned; in Bangor, Maine. As Defense Secretary under Reagan, the anti-Soviet hard-liner presided over a $2 trillion peacetime military buildup--the biggest in U.S. history--and backed Reagan's controversial, never implemented Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars. After finding himself at odds with Reagan...
Caspar Weinberger, who died Tuesday at 88, arrived at Ronald Reagan's Pentagon in 1981 with the nickname "Cap the Knife" for his penny-pinching ways as budget and welfare chief for presidents Nixon and Ford. But shortly after taking over the Defense Department he became known along giddy Pentagon corridors as "Cap the Ladle," for the billions of dollars he and Reagan were pumping into the nation's military might. In a rush to push the Soviet Union into bankruptcy, he championed new fleets of tanks, planes and ships - and the Strategic Defense Initiative designed, as Reagan...
...constitutional power” that it could even be used to justify genocide. “Experts in the law of war say his memo is evidence suggesting he participated in a war crime,” wrote John Dean, former counsel to the president during the Nixon Administration. “We’re scrubbing the whole thing. It will be replaced,” one Department of Justice official told USA Today, aptly if unwittingly evoking the coming whitewash. The White House and the Department of Justice distanced themselves from Bybee’s memo. But this...
...comment.) And several Republican officials said that if any change were made, it would be the addition of a wise man often referred to as "a David Gergen figure" rather than the departure (forced or otherwise) of any key staff members. Gergen, now a Harvard professor, served Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton...
...year was 1971. Dean of Harvard Law School Derek C. Bok had just succeeded the embattled Nathan M. Pusey ’28 as president of Harvard University. John Updike ’54 topped the bestseller list, a war dragged on in Vietnam, and conservative President Richard M. Nixon governed from the Oval Office. On July 1, 2006, newly appointed interim President Bok will again take the reins of the University. Although more than 35 years have passed, the current state of affairs seems to be much the same. Another conservative president sits in the White House, another...