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...pivotal figure in this year's battle of the budget will be not the President but the Secretary of Defense. It was Weinberger who persuaded Reagan to reject pleas that the Administration pare its military-spending requests sharply before presenting them to Congress. Consequently, the man once known as Cap the Knife (when he was President Nixon's Budget Director) has become the target of congressional budget cutters. After a meeting last week at which Republican Senators could not get the Secretary to yield a dollar, Mark Hatfield of Oregon termed Weinberger "a draft dodger" in the war against deficits...
...Cap Weinberger has lionized Winston Churchill all his adult life. He has collected and read his published works many times over, and he frequently quotes the wartime British Prime Minister in dinner-party conversation. He has gone to the trouble of acquiring a canvas by Churchill, an amateur painter of some note. Two years after Weinberger became Defense Secretary, he chose to schedule a speech at Westminster College, the tiny Missouri school where Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" address in 1946. Though he employs a speechwriting staff of four, Weinberger insisted on writing much of the speech himself, including...
...hardware dictate strategy, with a resulting surfeit of gold-plated weapons systems. Indeed, instead of getting a firm grip on the procurement process, Weinberger has, if anything, given more leeway to the Joint Chiefs. Says one longtime acquaintance of Weinberger's: "The service chiefs simply run circles around Cap...
...technique in selling his budgets is simplicity itself: arrive at a total and keep insisting that it is uncuttable. Every year at budget time, other Administration operatives pressure Weinberger to pare back his spending request. The President invariably sides with Weinberger. He continues to think of him as Cap the Knife, a budgetmaker who does not ask for anything that is not necessary. Says Frank Carlucci, Weinberger's deputy for two years and now a Sears, Roebuck executive: "It's that constituency of one that makes all the difference for Cap...
...same committee hearing, beneath eyes hooded in apparent boredom, have not worn well on Capitol Hill. "It's like there's a tape recorder in his head," complains a Republican Senator. "You hear the same thing again and again." A former employee thinks that may be the real Cap, describing Weinberger as "an automaton, a robot...