Talk:Caspar Weinberger

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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.

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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)


"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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] something bizarre

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