Caspar W. Weinberger '38, of San Francisco, Calif., has been awarded the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize given annually to a senior entering the Harvard Law School, it was announced today.

The "lessons" of the Vietnam War and Beirut loomed large in November of 1984, when Reagans Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger gave an influential speech embracing many of the military's concerns.