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Caspar Weinberger - Wikipedia  Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger (August 18, 1917  March 28, 2006) was an American ... Most notably he was Secretary of Defense under Republican President Ronald Reagan from 1981 .... While serving in the Office of Management and Budget, Weinberger earned the nickname "Cap the Knife" for his cost-cutting ability.
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Cap the KnifeMiller Center  Caspar W. Weinberger, the Reagan-era defense secretary who died March 28, 2006, ... Weinberger became known as "Cap the Knife" for resisting requests for...
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Caspar W. Weinberger > Historical Office > Article View  ... administrator; his success as a cost cutter earned him the sobriquet "Cap the Knife. .... Weinberger and Richard N. Perle, the assistant secretary of defense for...
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THEY CALL HIM CAP THE KNIFE - NYTimes.com  May 3, 1985 ... There he goes again. In his first four years as Defense Secretary, Caspar W. Weinberger resisted any economic accommodation with Moscow...
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Caspar W. Weinberger Dies at 88 - The New York Times  Mar 28, 2006 ... As Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense, Caspar W. Weinberger ... where he earned the nickname Cap the Knife by smilingly arguing against...
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PARAMETERS, US Army War College Quarterly - Winter 1996-97  Vietnam in Retrospect: Could We Have Won? ... But perhaps none is more agonizing--and intriguing--than that of whether the United ... Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara is known to have harbored ..... Nor, as Summers contends, did the US Army in the early 1960s enthusiastically embrace counterinsurgency;...
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Robert Gates - Wikipedia  Robert Michael "Bob" Gates (born September 25, 1943) is an American statesman, scholar and ... Gates was presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian ... They have two children. .... by President George W. Bush to the position of Secretary of Defense, Gates was also a .... The attacks of Sept.
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USATODAY.com - Rumsfeld is mix of warrior and manager  Dec 21, 2001 ... 10, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was updating his ... Fourteen weeks later, he has emerged as the public face of the war on terrorism. ... military brass and Congress over President Bush's ambitious plan to reshape the Pentagon. ... 1957-59; con gressman from Illinois' 13th District, 1963-69; director...
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American Masters . Robert Capa | PBS  The picture is one of Capa's two most famous (the other being of a GI landing on Omaha Beach on D-Day), and it has often been hailed as the greatest war...
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Caspar Weinberger dead at 88 - politics | NBC News  Mar 28, 2006 ... Former Defense Secretary Weinberger dies ... Weinberger was such a zealous economizer he earned the nickname Cap the Knife for his...
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Gates Says He 'Learned Lessons' of Iran-Contra : Intelligence: CIA ...  Sep 17, 1991 ... YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsLegislative Hearings ... He pledged he would resign as director before condoning a policy of ... and honest" actions he took during the Iran-Contra affair. ... leading up to Casey's closed-door testimony before the House and Senate intelligence committees on Nov.
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The Dulles Imperium - The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA ...  (John Wayne claimed that he scored his most memorable one-night stand at the Excelsior ... secret anti-Communist operations drew funding from the CIAwould enter Room ... of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and restoring the shah's autocratic rule. ... The shah realized that Allen Dulles could be an important ally.
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THE 43RD PRESIDENT: MAN IN THE NEWS; A Pentagon Veteran ...  Dec 29, 2000 ... When Donald H. Rumsfeld began his first tour of duty as secretary of ... defense secretary in history, but he had just 14 months to make his mark ... Mr. Rumsfeld was elected to Congress as a Republican from Illinois in 1962. ... During that first stint at the Pentagon, Mr. Rumsfeld tried to increase the defense...
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Eisenhower's Military-Industry Complex Warning, 50 Years Later ...  Jan 17, 2011 ... On Jan. 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower gave the nation a dire warning about what he described as a threat to democratic government. He called it the military-industrial complex, a formidable union of defense contractors and the armed forces.
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Context of 'Early February 1973: White House Aides Decide to ...  According to testimony by White House counsel John Dean to the Senate ... Dean's later testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee (see June 25-29, 1973), .... and has threatened to reveal it if he is not paid (see Mid-November, 1972). ...... Political Enemies Project, informally called President Nixon's enemies list.
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Exclusive: Pentagon May Demote David Petraeus - The Daily Beast  Jan 18, 2016 ... The defense secretary is looking to clamp down on misbehaving generals. Pentagon insiders say Petraeus could be the next general to face the consequences. ... The Pentagon is considering retroactively demoting retired Gen. ... The U.S. military has, on several occasions, demoted generals, increasingly...
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Top Leaders - Department of Defense  The Secretary of Defense is the principal defense policy adviser to the President ... and all matters for which the Secretary is authorized to act pursuant to law.
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A Hawk Who Preferred Not to Fight - Page 3 - latimes  Mar 29, 2006 ... He built up the military under Reagan and later was indicted in the Iran-Contra scandal. ... Caspar Weinberger: The obituary of former Defense Secretary Caspar ... Safire, then a presidential speechwriter, dubbed him "Cap the Knife. ... new nickname -- Cap the Ladle -- as he spearheaded Reagan's "peace...
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jeopardy/1125_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  I'M SORRY | This cabinet member: "To those Iraqis... mistreated by members of the U.S. Armed Forces, I offer my deepest apology" | Rumsfeld. right: Eric. Wrong:.
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Articles about Cuban Missile Crisis by Date - Page 4 - tribunedigital ...  A soft-spoken Georgian, Dean Rusk operated at the center of American foreign policy ... memorably: "We're standing eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked." ... With all respect to the former lead, Jackie Gleason, who Allen said he...