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Correspondence, diary notes and other jottings, speeches, writings, interview transcripts, television scripts, legal and subject files, legislative and political material, newspaper columns, book reviews, appointment books, financial records, family papers, printed matter, and other papers documenting Weinberger's career in journalism and government. Relates to his involvement in California and national Republican Party politics and to his career as a lawyer, television broadcaster, and newspaper columnist in San Francisco; executive with Bechtel Corporation; cabinet member during the Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, and Ronald Reagan administrations; and publisher of Forbes Magazine. Documents his service as head of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and U.S. secretary of defense. Includes material pertaining to his work as moderator of the television program Profile: Bay Area and to his newspaper column "California Commentary."
Subjects include domestic policy issues such as abortion, affirmative action in education, federal budget, health care, social security funding, and welfare reform. Subjects of diplomatic and military policy include Afghanistan, Central America, U.S.-Soviet nuclear weapons discussions, Iranian hostage crisis, the Iran-Contra affair, the invasion of Grenada, Falklands War, crises in Lebanon and the Persian Gulf, U.S. attacks on Libya, American policy toward Nicaragua, NATO, the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, the Strategic Defense Initiative, terrorism, and White House and National Security Council meetings.
Persons represented include Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm Abū Ghazālah; Spiro T. Agnew; Richard Lee Armitage; Menacham Begin; Harold Brown; George Bush; Frank Charles Carlucci; Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, Baron Carrington; William J. Casey; Richard B. Cheney; George Christopher; William Patrick Clark; William J. Crowe; Fahd ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz,King of Saudi Arabia; Robert H. Finch; Indira Gandhi; Barry M. Goldwater; Alexander Meigs Haig; Charles Hernu; Michael Heseltine; Hussein, King of Jordan; Fred Charles Iklé; Goodwin Knight; William F. Knowland; Helmut Kohl; Yūkō Kurihara; Robert C. McFarlane; Muḥammad Ḥusnī Mubarak; George Murphy; Richard Norman Perle; John M. Poindexter; Colin L. Powell; Elliot L. Richardson; Nelson A. Rockefeller; Bernard William Rogers; Donald Rumsfeld; Itzhak Shamir; Ariel Sharon; George Pratt Shultz; Giovanni Spadolini; David Alan Stockman; Margaret Thatcher; John G. Tower; John William Vessey; and Manfred Wörner.
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Abū Ghazālah, Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, Social security, Bechtel Corporation, United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, National security, Profile: Bay Area (Radio program), Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990, Republican Party (Calif.), Journalism, Abortion, United States. Office of Management and Budget, International Security, Medical care, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, United States. White House Office, Public Expenditures, Terrorism, Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981, Affirmative action programs, History, Politics and government, Practice of law, Education, Falkland Islands War, 1982, Trade regulation, Defenses, National Security Council (U.S.), United States. Federal Trade Commission, Military policy, United States. Dept. of Defense, Forbes magazine, Arms control, Strategic Defense Initiative, American periodicals, Hostages, Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ), Public welfare, United States, Broadcast journalism, Foreign relations, Fiscal policyPeople
George Pratt Shultz (1920-), Peter Alexander Rupert Carington Carrington Baron (1919-), William J. Casey, Richard B. Cheney, Charles Hernu, Richard Norman Perle (1941-), Gerald R. Ford (1913-2006), Yūkō Kurihara (1920-), Margaret Thatcher, Spiro T. Agnew (1918-1996), Donald Rumsfeld (1932-), Helmut Kohl (1930-), Elliot L. Richardson (1920-1999), Bernard William Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Barry M. Goldwater (1909-1998), William J. Crowe (1925-2007), Harold Brown (1927-), Richard Lee Armitage (1945-), William Patrick Clark (1931-), Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908-1979), Manfred Wörner (1934-), Fahd ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz King of Saudi Arabia (1923-2005), George Christopher, Hussein King of Jordan (1935-1999), Alexander Meigs Haig (1924-2010), Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994), Frank Charles Carlucci (1930-), Robert C. McFarlane, Giovanni Spadolini, Colin L. Powell, Itzhak Shamir (1915-), Robert H. Finch (1925-), George Bush (1924-), John M. Poindexter, Menachem Begin (1913-1992), Michael Heseltine (1933-), John William Vessey (1922-), Muḥammad Ḥusnī Mubārak (1928-), John G. Tower (1925-1991), David Alan Stockman (1946-), William F. Knowland (1908-1974), Ariel Sharon, Indira Gandhi (1917-1984), Fred Charles Iklé, Goodwin Knight (1896-1970), George Murphy (1902-1992)Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Deposit, Caspar W. Weinberger, 1981-2005.
Converted to gift, 2006.
Gift, John Earl Haynes, 2008.
transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
U.S. secretary of defense, U.S. secretary of health, education, and welfare, California state legislator, lawyer, journalist, and business executive. Full name: Caspar Willard Weinberger. Born 1917; died 2006.
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