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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...
...Remember, Ronald Reagan spent eight years in Washington without ever leaving California; these guys are actually behaving like they're in Washington. Well, you can't be a conservative Republican majority that behaves like it's in Washington. Reagan used to have a rule in Sacramento when he was in governor that if people said "we" and they meant the government of California, they had to leave. Because "we" meant the people of California, and not the government. And these guys have got to get this back in their heads...
...understand that the world doesn't want it as a global policeman and certainly not George W. Bush as global shoot-'em-up sheriff. Victor Marshall Erskineville, Australia The Trouble with Elections Klein's column was right on the mark [Feb. 6]. It is amazing to me, a "Reagan Democrat," how quickly the U.S. electorate could forget President Bush's campaign positions that criticized the Clinton Administration's policy of "nation building." Isn't that precisely what Bush has us doing in Afghanistan and Iraq? As Klein said, democracy "demands that people take charge of their lives and make informed...
...When the stakes were this high, past Presidents put their prestige on the line with no guarantee it would work, like Ronald Reagan at Reykjavik, Jimmy Carter at Camp David and Bill Clinton at Dayton. The President must show that same kind of leadership. If he doesn't, instead of trying to build stability in Iraq, we will be forced to try to contain chaos...
...Bush's approval rating at 37% - rumors of a shakeup always begin to fly. And indeed, all of the speculation was dismissed by some knowledgeable people as just that. However, CBS News reported Wednesday night that Howard Baker, who was Senate majority leader, chief of staff to Ronald Reagan and ambassador to Japan for this administration, had placed a call to the White House on Tuesday and "sent a direct message" to Chief of Staff Andrew Card urging him to hire former Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee as a top adviser to help inject some new blood. Last July, Bush...