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The dock suitably is long enough to tie up a Spruance Class guided-missile destroy- er. Approach it from the water guests tra- verse the plunging green lawn toward the nine-over-nine Georgian windows and the elegant front door. Touring the 20-room house results in an echoic sensation because its complete- ly empty. Honestly how could you restage the Reagan years Eight bedrooms six full baths and two half baths round out the Sound Drive Mount Desert its handsome aspect conjures up images of a Mount Ver- non plucked from Virginia and nestled with jewelers precision into a savagely beautiful setting. Somes Sound is the only fjord on the East Coast of the U.S. Excuse me Somes Sound was the only fjord here until it was down- graded to a fjard something of a geographic embarassment. Just ask former planet Plu- to what that feels like. In any case the most profound of Somes Sounds indigo depths kiss the bottom at 175 feet. The Sound Caspar Willard Weinberger Jr known as Cap is the son of Caspar Weinberger prominent statesman and most notably U.S. Secretary of Defense under the Rea- gan administration from 1981 to 1987. Caps mother Jane Weinberger was an author and publisher from Milford Maine. Born in 1947 Cap studied at Harvardhis fathers alma materand earned a B.A. in Modern British History in 1968. He lived in San Francisco for many years working as an award-winning producer director and writer of documentary films for an NBC affiliate. Cap settled in Mount Desert in 1997. Today he is a writer and lecturer as well as running Windswept House Publish- ers started by his mother in 1984. He takes us inside Windswept as both a loving family member and a keen observer. Q. If there were a documentary film on Windswept during the Reagan years what scenes would they show Wed like to see your father in action. CW I remember he had one event early on in the Reagan years. He was commu- nicating with forces in Iraq or the Gulf or somewhere unheard-of in the Middle East. Maybe it was Saudi Arabia. He was talking into an enormous phone like the one Michael Douglas had when he walked out of prison as Gordon Gecko in Wall Street II. There was an uplink to a satellite. I watched him talking outside on the deck. He had a long conversation of some im- port that was completely secure. Maybe. The oldest part of Windswept dates roughly to the Civil War so the documen- tary would show scenes there. My mother prized that room the heart of the house. So there was quite a bit of activity here with seating for up to 20 guests and views to the sound. Gen. Powell was up here of course and Gen. Vessey. Olympia Snowe a lovely friend of the family was here of- ten. She spoke at my dads funeral. A documentary film would show my dad in his first-floor library. It was a lovely gift given to him by my mother. Its Penta- gon-sized. My dad was quite a bibliophile a lifelong writer. He was born in San Fran- A Chat With CasparW. Weinberger Jr. Continued on next page