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...But Weinberger, then defence secretary, opposed the operation from the outset, and Powell kept him apprised of some of its details with intelligence intercepts....
...George Pratt Shultz was born in Manhattan on December 13 1920, the only child of a man who developed training programmes for the New York Stock Exchange....
...It was at the agency that he first encountered George HW Bush, who served as CIA director in the mid-1970s....
...Clashing cabinet secretaries are nothing new, analysts say, citing rivalries between Caspar Weinberger and George Shultz under Ronald Reagan or between Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell under George W Bush...
...The long-running animus between Republican heavyweights George Shultz and Weinberger, whose careers shuttled between Bechtel and government, is told with effect and makes plain the ideology and ambitions...
...Other industry stars who are planning their own funds this year include Michael Weinberger, who worked closely with Jamie Dinan at York Capital Management....
...Mr Weinberger was an assistant secretary of the US Treasury during George W. Bush’s presidency and was also appointed to the US Social Security Advisory Board by Bill Clinton....
...But both in Mr Dean’s primary contest and in the general election between John Kerry and George W. Bush that followed, Democrats failed to turn out enough votes to win....
...The George W. Bush/Rumsfeld doctrine was put to the test in Afghanistan and Iraq. It flunked....
...(Weinberger’s military aide at the time was Colin Powell, who then embraced and updated Weinberger’s rules when he became chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.)...
...“When the Iran-Contra scandal broke in 1986, Ronald Reagan permitted all his senior officials, including George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger, to testify before Congress,” says Bruce Fein, a senior lawyer...
...He worked in the administration of George H.W. Bush....
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