Talk:Caspar Weinberger/Archives/2014

Secretary of Defense

Casper Weinberger served 2497 days. Donald Rumsfeld served 427 days in his first term under Ford and 2158 days in his second under Bush (43), for a total of 2585 days in office. Robert McNamara served 2595 days, making Weingerger the 3rd longest serving Secretary of Defense.

Public domain

How do you know that the external link to his biography is in the public domain? If it truly is, I'd like to see it pasted here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kent Wang (talk • contribs) 03:15, January 2, 2004 (UTC)

it is from a DOD website, and works of the U.S. Government are in the public domain unless explicitly copyrighted, which this isn't --rogerd 18:24, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Book

"After he published his book, his colleages from the Reagan administration broke contact and refused to speak with him."-- Source for this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 140.180.4.141 (talk • contribs) 21:52, February 25, 2006 (UTC)

Bloom County

We find Opus and Milo sitting on a grassy knoll. Opus begins to recite thusly...

"How I love to watch the morn with golden sun that shines,

up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine

The wind doth taste of bittersweet,

Like jasper wine and sugar.

I bet it's blown through others' feet,

like those of...

(Struggles to think of a rhyme...)

...Caspar Weinberger."

(From a Bloom County comic strip of March, 1983.)

The National Review website reports that the following response was issued on official stationery from the Department of Defense:

Dear Mr. Breathed,

Many a morn I've longed to see

A comic strip be kind to me.

On 30 March, before my eyes

A penguin watched a warm sunrise.

In this land of so much bounty

Could I have that great Bloom County?

Sincerely,

Caspar Weinberger.

Hamster Sandwich 00:12, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Mother

There's something bizarre about saying that a person was born as the son of his stepmother. Obviously, he had a biological mother; this is even more evident than when someone is the genetic son of a father who took off. Who was the biological mother? And why the hell the obfuscation here?

If you don't know, don't put it that way. 76.193.119.62 13:56, 14 June 2007 (UTC)Steve, 6/14/07 7:00 AM PST

Ancestry

Is he of German or Jewish ancestry on his paternal side? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.153.209.137 (talk) 20:53, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Post Nominals

I removed the post nominal letters GBE, referring to his honorary status as Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire, from the introduction of this article as Mr. Weinberger was not closely associated with the United Kingdom in the sense required by the Manual of Style for biographies. The full style guidelines for the use of post nominal letters can be viewed here: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies)#Post-nominal_initials.TrufflesTheLamb (talk) 03:13, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

Speaking of his connections to the UK, I recently heard on the BBC that he was so pro-British during the Falklands War that he promised Margaret Thatcher an aircraft carrier in the event that one of the British ones were sunk!1812ahill (talk) 07:50, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

Pollard memo

This page says that Pollard's attorneys were not allowed to see the Weinberger memo, while the Pollard page says the opposite. Which is it? Binarybits (talk) 17:13, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Unintentional change of name

In the section "family" there is a redlink which is somewhat irritating: In 1942, Weinberger married [[Francziszka Weinberger|Rebecca Jane Dalton]], who was born on March 29, 1918

I have no clue, what is meant. I can't find any link between this name and Weinberger. I think this is just a mistake and changed it. Or is there an untelled story behind this? I Have removed this in the de-WP and it should be changed here, too. --Dipl-Ingo (talk) 07:24, 16 June 2014 (UTC)