Weinberger, C

<p><b>Caspar W. Weinberger</b>, described as "a <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Conservative&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Conservative (page does not exist)">conservative</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Republican_Party" title="Republican Party" class="mw-redirect">Republican</a> and consummate Cold Warrior who served in the Cabinets of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon" class="mw-redirect">Richard Nixon</a> and <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> and got ensnared in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Iran-Contra_scandal" title="Iran-Contra scandal" class="mw-redirect">Iran-Contra scandal</a>," died March 28, 2006, aged 88. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032800736.html">[1]</a>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Profiles">Profiles</span></h2>

<p>According to his March 28, 2006, Associated Press profile, Weinberger was born August 18, 1917, in San Francisco, California.

Weinberger:</p>

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<li>"began his political career in 1952 in the California Legislature, where he took on and cleaned up a corrupt state liquor commission."</li>

<li>"believed that budgets should always be balanced, first demonstrated his budget-trimming talents in the late 1960s when he helped solve California's budget problems as then-Gov. Reagan's finance director."</li>

<li>was recruited by Nixon in 1969 "to head the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federal_Trade_Commission" title="Federal Trade Commission">Federal Trade Commission</a>, where as chairman ... then moved on to run the president's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Office_of_Management_and_Budget" title="Office of Management and Budget" class="mw-redirect">Office of Management and Budget</a> in 1970."</li>

<li>"served as Nixon's secretary of health, education and welfare before returning to San Francisco in 1975 as special counsel to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bechtel" title="Bechtel" class="mw-redirect">Bechtel</a> Corp., the huge worldwide construction company."</li>

<li>was "recalled to public service from Bechtel by Reagan."</li>

<li>while Reagan's Secretary of Defense: "federal felony charges stemming from his alleged role in the sale of weapons to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> to finance secret, illegal aid to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Nicaragua" title="Nicaragua">Nicaragua</a> Contras."</li>

<li>was "granted Christmas Eve pardons to Weinberger and five others accused in the scandal" by President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_H.W._Bush" title="George H.W. Bush" class="mw-redirect">George H.W. Bush</a>, after he lost in 1992 to President <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>.</li>

<li>joined <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Forbes,_Inc." title="Forbes, Inc.">Forbes, Inc.</a> in 1989 as the magazine's fourth publisher and was named chairman in 1993, "filling a position that had been vacant since the 1990 death of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Malcolm_Forbes" title="Malcolm Forbes">Malcolm S. Forbes</a>. He endorsed <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Steve_Forbes" title="Steve Forbes">Steve Forbes</a> for president in 1996."</li>

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<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reagan_administration" title="Reagan administration">Reagan administration</a></li>

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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span></h2>

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<li>Dian McDonald, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fas.org/news/iran/1992/921224-260039.htm">"Bush Pardons Weinberger, Five Others Tied to Iran-Contra,</a> USIA, December 24, 1992: "President Bush granted pardons to former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five other individuals for their conduct related to the Iran-Contra affair, calling Weinberger a 'true patriot'."</li>

<li>Robert Parry, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/1993/07/parry.html">"The White House cover-up that no one wants you to understand,"</a> <i>Mother Jones</i>, July/August 1993.</li>

<li>George Gedda, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/28/AR2006032800736.html">"Caspar Weinberger Dies at Age 88,"</a> Associated Press (<i>Washington Post</i>), March 28, 2006.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2108491,00.html">"Caspar Weinberger. August 18, 1917 - March 28, 2006. American Secretary of Defence who created the military machine with which Ronald Reagan faced down the Soviet Union,"</a> <i>Times Online</i> (UK), March 29, 2006.</li>

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