Caspar Willard Weinberger (August 18th 1917 - March 28th 2006 with Bangor, Maine) was a American Politician , member of the Republican party, secretary with Defense of the January 21st 1981 with the November 23rd 1987 during the mandate of Ronald Reagan.

It was implied in the program known as of “Star Wars” as in the Affaire Iran-Countered. From 1993, it chaired the magazine Forbes .

Weinberger was born with San Francisco, California. Wire of one of Czech lawyer immigrant , Hermann Weinberger and of Cherry Carpenter Hampson, it is of Jewish ascent with dimensions governor but it embraced the Christian faith of his mother.

Graduate of a Doctorate of Right in 1941 of the university of Harvard, it joined the US Army and is used in the 41e division as infantry in the Pacifique. At the end of the war, he is member of the staff of the General Douglas MacArthur.

Of 1945 with 1947, of return in the civil life, it follows the occupation of legal assistant near a federal judge then joined a law firm of San Francisco.

In 1952, it is elected at the assembly of state of California, re-elected in 1954 and 1956.

In 1958, its failure to be elected Attorney General de Californie does not prevent it from continuing to lead a political life and to being elected president of the Republican party of California in 1962.

In 1967, the Ronald Reagan governor names it with the presidency of the economic commission of the state before naming it in 1968 directing public purses.

In January 1970, Weinberger moves in with Washington DC and is used in the governments as Richard Nixon. He will become secretary with Health.

Of 1975 with 1980, he is vice-president of Bechtel Corporation in California.

Sharing the convictions of Ronald Reagan on the Soviet Union (a threat), Weinberger is named by this last with the secretariat with the Defense of the country after its election with the presidency of the United States.

This station, Weinberger is made lawyer of the increase in the budget of the military expenditure vis-a-vis the Soviet Union. The capacity of intervention of the American army is reorganized and modernized. The consequence of this budgetary expenditure and the ambitious plan of reorganization of the armed forces is the tripling of the national debt. But as waited, the USSR cannot follow the example of the United States. It is in this context that Weinberger defends the project expensive and discussed shield anti-missile called “Star Wars”.

Implied in the Affaire Iran-Countered and in budgetary difficulties, shown lies, he resigns the November 23rd 1987, officially because of the health issues of his wife.

Weinberger profited from a presidential forgiveness in the business Iran-Countered the December 24th 1992 of the president George H.W. Bush.

In 1989, Weinberger joined Forbes Inc. as editor of the magazine Forbes and becomes president in 1993 about it.

In 1996, one of its books calls in question the adequacy of the American military capacity to the world of the post-war period cold. His/her former colleagues of the Reagan government will hold rigor of it to him, refusing to discuss with him.

Weinberger died in old 88 years of the continuations of a Pneumonie in Mount Desert Island, Maine.