George P. Shultz, Top Cabinet Official Under Nixon and Reagan, Dies at 100
He carried one of Washington’s weightiest résumés labor secretary, treasury secretary and budget director for Nixon and secretary of state under Reagan as the Cold War waned.
Secretary of State George Shultz, right, greeted Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze before a U. N. Security Council session in 1985,Credit.Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Published Feb. 7, 2021Updated Feb. 8, 2021
George P. Shultz, who presided with a steady hand over the beginning of the end of the Cold War as President Ronald Reagan’s often embattled secretary of state, died on Saturday at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 100.