"Caspar Weinberger Dies at Age 88"

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON - Caspar W. Weinberger, a conservative Republican and consummate Cold Warrior who served in the Cabinets of
Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and got ensnared in the Iran-Contra scandal, died Tuesday at 88.

Weinberger had been hospitalized in Maine for about a week with a high fever and pneumonia brought on by old age, according to his son, Caspar Weinberger Jr. Weinberger's wife of 63 years, Jane, was by his side when he died, the son said.

"He gave everything to his country, to public office and to his family," Caspar Weinberger Jr. said.

As Richard Nixon's budget director, Weinberger was such a zealous economizer he earned the nickname "Cap the Knife" for his efforts to slash government spending, largely by cutting or curtailing many of President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society social programs.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060328/ap_on_go_ot/obit_weinberger

[BlueManDude]

1. 257 Marines gave everything too...

thanks Cap you incompetent ideolgue. Rot In Hell.

[northofdenali]

2. Only the good die young.

n/t