Reagan SecDef Caspar Weinberger, 88
Posted: Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 9:41 am
Born: San Francisco, 1917
Educated: Harvard
Military: Entered U.S. Army in 1941
Politics: Became chair of California Republican Party in 1962
Washington: Headed Federal Trade Commission, Office of Management and Budget, Health, Education and Welfare Department, and Defense Department. Backed President Reagan’s “Star Wars” defense initiative
Highs and lows: Knighted by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II for his support during the Falklands War; indicted over the Iran-Contra affair and was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush before a trial.
Source: U.S. Defense Department
Caspar Weinberger, defense secretary under President Ronald Reagan, died Tuesday at age 88, his family said.
Weinberger died about 5 a.m. in a hospital near his home in Mount Desert, Maine.
He had recently been treated for pneumonia. …
Weinberger, who presided over an unprecedented peacetime military buildup costing more than $1 trillion, began his government career as a cost-cutter. … Read full obituary
