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...even in the rarified atmosphere of Capital Hill reputation mongering, the most jaded cynic can't help but be bemused over the rollercoaster ride the reputations of three so-called giants of national security policy have taken over the past decade. The melodrama of Cap and George and Henry the K--reaching one of its most interesting chapters in recent months--goes to show once again just how transitory stature in Washington can be, how fleeting prevailing wisdom really is, and, perhaps most fascinating, how little general smarts, can matter in foreign and defense policy...
...remember, of course, Casper W. Weinberger '38 and George Shultz. They first made it big in the halcyon days of the Nixon White House Cap was "Cap the Knife," Nixon's "chief executor of sacred cows," in Newsweek's words. A fiscal conservative, but a Rockefeller liberal, they said, a man who took the surgeon's knife to the vast bureaucracy at the Federal Trade Commission, then the Office of Management and Budget, and finally the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "He's no ideologue," said one liberal congressman when Weinberger was named Defense Secretary three years...
...very inflexibility on the Pentagon budget that reveals the heart of the Weinberger problem. A fascinating article in the National Journal on Weinberger describes how, in the wrangle over the '84 budget, Cap could have struck a deal with congressman for a seven percent real spending increase, but had to settle for five because he refused to compromise. Even in off-the-record discussions, the article went on to say, Weinberger refuses to recycle anything more than standard Pentagon positions on issues...
...Well, before Reagan had time to get the Marines on it, some friend of his with a yacht put in a call to Cap Weinberger...I read recently that Ralph Nader said George Bush's staff alone had raised the yacht-per-Administration member ratio to its greatest heights since Calvin Coolidge...
Falcone and eight other Crimson regulars will exchange helmet and jersey for cap and gown, never again to take the ice for the Crimson...