It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

He specifically denied that he was opposed to the INF Treaty scheduled to be signed in Washington in December 1987. The 1910 Census shows Herman and Luella living in the household of Nathan Weinberger the grandfather of Caspar Weinberger. Weinberger moved to Washington in January 1970 to become chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.

He was awarded both the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1987 and an honorary British knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. His tenure as Secretary of Defense is the third longest in U. His entry into politics was as a California State Assemblyman from 1953 to 1959 and he would go on to serve as Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.