Weinberger, Caspar W. creator mixed material monographic eng 473,500 840 363 2 494 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, arms control, 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. Restrictions apply. Classified, in part. Audio and video recordings 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. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011107 Collection material in English. Abū Ghazālah, Muḥammad ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm. Agnew, Spiro T 1918-1996 Armitage, Richard Lee 1945- Begin, Menachem 1913-1992 Brown, Harold 1927- Bush, George 1924- Carlucci, Frank Charles 1930- Baron Carrington, Peter Alexander Rupert Carington 1919- Casey, William J Cheney, Richard B Christopher, George Clark, William Patrick 1931-2013 Crowe, William J 1925-2007 King of Saudi Arabia Fahd ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz 1923-2005 Finch, Robert H 1925- Ford, Gerald R 1913-2006 Gandhi, Indira 1917-1984 Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris) 1909-1998 Haig, Alexander Meigs 1924-2010 Hernu, Charles Heseltine, Michael 1933- King of Jordan Hussein 1935-1999 Iklé, Fred Charles Knight, Goodwin 1896-1970 Knowland, William F. (William Fife) 1908-1974 Kohl, Helmut 1930- Kurihara, Yūkō 1920- McFarlane, Robert C Mubārak, Muḥammad Ḥusnī 1928- Murphy, George 1902-1992 Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 Poindexter, John M Perle, Richard Norman 1941- Powell, Colin L Reagan, Ronald Richardson, Elliot L 1920-1999 Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich) 1908-1979 Rogers, Bernard William Rumsfeld, Donald 1932- Shamir, Itzhak 1915-2012 Sharon, Ariel Shultz, George Pratt 1920- Spadolini, Giovanni Stockman, David Alan 1946- Thatcher, Margaret Tower, John G. (John Goodwin) 1925-1991 Vessey, John William 1922- Wörner, Manfred 1934- United States. Department of Defense. United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. United States. Federal Trade Commission. United States. Office of Management and Budget. United States. White House Office. Bechtel Corporation. National Security Council (U.S.) North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Republican Party (Calif.) Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Abortion Affirmative action programs United States American periodicals Arms control Broadcast journalism California San Francisco Education United States Expenditures, Public United States Falkland Islands War, 1982 Hostages Iran Hostages United States Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981 Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990 Fiscal policy United States Journalism Journalism California San Francisco Medical care United States National security United States Practice of law California San Francisco Public welfare United States Security, International Strategic Defense Initiative Social security United States Terrorism Trade regulation United States Afghanistan History Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 California Politics and government 1951- Central America History 1979- Grenada History American Invasion, 1983 Iran Foreign relations United States Lebanon History 1975- Libya History 1969- Nicaragua Foreign relations United States Persian Gulf Region United States Defenses United States Foreign relations 20th century United States Foreign relations Iran United States Foreign relations Nicaragua United States Military policy United States Politics and government 1946- Cabinet officers Executives Journalists Lawyers Legislators mm 81075883 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011107 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011107.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011107 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011107.3 Restrictions apply. Classified, in part. DLC 820107 20260227111710.0 mm 81075883