Weinberger, Caspar Willard
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American government official (b. Aug. 18, 1917, San Francisco, Calif.— d. March 28, 2006, Bangor, Maine), was secretary of defense (1981–87) under Pres. Ronald Reagan and presided over the biggest peacetime increase in military spending in U.S. history. Weinberger resigned after having become entangled in the Iran-Contra Affair, the scandal that erupted following disclosures that the Reagan administration had unlawfully sold missiles to Iran and funneled the proceeds to right-wing Contra insurgents fighting Nicaragua's socialist government. Later he was indicted for having lied to the independent counsel investigating the scheme, but Pres. George H.W. Bush pardoned him in 1992, days before his trial was to begin. In 1989 Weinberger became publisher of
Forbes magazine, and from 1993 to 2006 he served as its chairman. In 1990 he wrote
Fighting for Peace, which chronicled his years at the Pentagon, and he was coauthor of the 2005 political thriller
Chain of Command.* * *
Universalium.
2010.
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