January 8, 1982
Memorandum for the President [Ronald Reagan] from Secretary Weinberger, ‘Weekly Report to the President’
In a memorandum for the president from January 1982, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger expressed his criticism of Israel’s Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon and his tendency of “going public whenever it suits him”.
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