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As Secretary of Defense from 1981 to 1987, Weinberger oversaw a major buildup of American military strength, championing the B-1B bomber, the 600-ship Navy, and the Strategic Defense Initiative. He implemented a strategy aimed at placing economic and military-industrial pressure on the Soviet Union, and he laid out the Six Tests for committing U.S. armed forces in a 1984 National Press Club speech.
On the 17th of June 1992, Weinberger was indicted on five felony charges by Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, including accusations that he lied to Congress and obstructed government investigations related to the Iran-Contra affair. He had participated in the transfer of American Hawk and TOW missiles to Iran despite later claiming to have opposed the sales on principle.
President George H. W. Bush pardoned Weinberger on the 24th of December 1992, before he could be tried on the original Iran-Contra charges. Bush had served as Reagan's vice president during the events that led to the scandal.
Weinberger earned the nickname "Cap the Knife" during his time at the Office of Management and Budget under President Nixon, where he served as both deputy director and director between 1970 and 1973, becoming known for his aggressive cost-cutting. The nickname was later inverted at the Pentagon, where he became known as "Cap the Ladle" for championing large increases in defense spending.
Relf v. Weinberger was a 1973 lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center naming Weinberger as a defendant after three young Black American sisters, Minnie Lee, Mary Alice, and Katie Relf, were subjected to forced sterilization and non-consensual medical procedures at a federally funded clinic in Montgomery, Alabama. A district court involved in the hearings found that between 100,000 and 150,000 poor people were being sterilized annually using federal funds, with some coerced by threats to cut off welfare benefits.
Weinberger received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan in 1987 and an honorary Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire from Queen Elizabeth II in 1988, specifically for his contributions to military cooperation between the U.S. and the U.K. during the Falklands War of 1982. He was also inducted into the U.S. Army Officer Candidate School Hall of Fame in 1981.