Lyn Nofziger and Caspar Weinberger are dead (aka the dying off of the Reagan White House crew)

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Busy couple of days. Nofziger I barely remembered but some of the eulogies I'm reading make him seem like a creep -- someone who was humorous so long as he made it clear he thought of you as a bug if you even vaguely disagreed with him. Weinberger, though, I'll have a slightly softer spot for -- he was, after all, my dad's boss at the time, at least in a somewhat distant sense. During a visit to Acadia National Park we spotted him at an excellent Greek restaurant in Bar Harbor, where I gather he had a summer home.

Also, of course, this:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E603/web04/Jason/Portfolio/image018.jpg

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:32 (twenty years ago)

My family spotted Sec. of the Interior James Watt on the street in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, ca. 1988.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I'm Lyn Nofziger and this is my website.

If you're looking for a female exhibitionist with a digital camera you've come to the wrong place.

Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:43 (twenty years ago)

At last some happiness to relieve the Sudden/Owens/Lem trio.
Tho I won't believe Weinberger's dead til I drive a stake thru his heart, and it'd be better if some of the Reaganites still actively employed in driving our country into the ground took the hint.

Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Nofziger also worked in the Nixon White House, I think.

Where are Ed Meese and Poindexter these days?

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:20 (twenty years ago)

haha ned thats the same comic i thought of immediately!! i remember asking my dad who that was & he explained to very young me that he was a bad guy

+++, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

From the NYT obit:

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Mr. Nofziger's friends said he could be candid to a fault, which sometimes strained his relations with Mr. and Mrs. Reagan. In 1991, when the president dismissed three former close aides, including former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, from the board of the Reagan Presidential Library, Mr. Nofziger wrote a scathing op-ed article for The Washington Post. He said Mr. Reagan had broken his heart by turning his back on friends.

"Yes, I know you were a long way from being a perfect president," Mr. Nofziger wrote. "I thought that sometimes you listened to and took bad advice. I thought that toward the end you were paying too much attention to what history might think of you — a mistake most presidents make."

He went on, "But still, while on a scale of 1 to 10 you were more nearly a 7 than a 10, you remained my hero because it's hard to visualize anybody else scoring more than a 5 — at least on my scale. But today, Mr. President, and I weep because of it, you are no longer my hero."

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:24 (twenty years ago)

and yeah morbius otm - finally some welcome passings after what seems like at least a dozen of my heroes died in succession

+++, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:25 (twenty years ago)

haha actually my 2nd reaction was reagan & nixon another step closer to reassembling their administrations in hell

+++, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:26 (twenty years ago)

The Corner has already started passing the Kleenex box:

Kathryn I wanted to share with you a story about Mr. Weinberger. As a college senior, I wrote my thesis on SDI and its impact on ending the Cold War. On a whim, I figured I'd call Mr. Weinberger to see if he'd be willing to be interviewed for my thesis. I had no expectation that he'd answer my call, much less talk with me. I contacted his office at Forbes and spoke with his secretary. I explained to her what I was doing and she told me that she talk to him and get back to me. 15 minutes later she called back and asked if I had time to talk with him. He then gave me 30 minutes of his time, answering all of my questions and sharing a few stories as well. He could not have been more generous or gracious. I'm writing in hopes that you can in some way share my story with your readers. Too often it seems that we lose perspective on the human side of those serving in government. Here was a former Secretary of Defense willing to take time out of his day to talk to some no name college student he didn't know. I've always been impressed and somewhat awed by this. Anyway, I enjoy reading The Corner, keep up the good work..

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 16:32 (twenty years ago)

Where are Ed Meese and Poindexter these days?

Poindexter, of course, was recently seen as the director of DARPA's Information Awareness Office and the Policy Analysis Market until both (and him) were defunded.

Meese continues to be involved with the Heritage Foundation and the Discovery Institute.

Both continue to drink the blood of first born to this day.

The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

ah fuck both these guys

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:12 (twenty years ago)

I do have to admit that of all the Reagan-era jackals, Weinberger was the most tolerable - more or less another McNamara-style Cold Warrior. Honestly, I wish he was Sec. Of Defense right now rather than Rummy.

The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Meanwhile, through the looking glass, pity the travails of a Nofziger. Somehow I'm not very emotional on the subject.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 01:06 (twenty years ago)


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