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How George Shultz Escaped Two Scandal-Plagued Administrations Unscathed
As other top aides crumbled around him, he managed to survive the Nixon and Reagan White Houses with his reputation intact.
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By DAVID GREENBERG
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David Greenberg, a professor of history and journalism and media studies at Rutgers, is a contributing editor
at Politico Magazine
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As a young journalist, a friend of mine scored a fellowship at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University, where he was urged to call on the faculty for visits. He scheduled an appointment with George Shultz the former Nixon and Reagan Cabinet secretary who died last weekend at the age of 100 a senior fellow there. But as my friend crossed the quad to Shultz’s office, he found he could recall just two facts about the man. One was that
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Former secretaries of State George Shultz and Madeleine Albright speak in San Francisco in 2010. | Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo
George Shultz, American statesman, dies at 100
WASHINGTON George P. Shultz, a widely respected statesman and economist through many productive years on the public stage, has died. He was 100.
“Shultz was a key player, alongside President Ronald Reagan, in changing the direction of history by using the tools of diplomacy to bring the Cold War to an end,” the Hoover Institution at Stanford University said in announcing his death on Saturday.
Shultz began his government service in the Eisenhower administration during the 1950s and would remain a public figure through the Obama presidency. He was, however, best known for his stints in the Republican administrations of Richard Nixon (as Labor secretary, director of Office of Management and Budget, Treasury secretary) and Ronald Reagan (secretary of State).
george shultz, what are you doing for a living these days? i tried to live up for my four great-grandchildren who to me represent the future. and i look at them and i say to myself what can i do to make the world better for these kids? as a distinguished fellow at the hoover institution, what is it that you do? well, i work on the problem of nuclear weapons and how to get better control of them. eventually to eliminate them. i work on economic issues. there is a great economics group. i work on energy subjects, working a great deal on that. and i ve also been trying to reflect a little bit about my experiences to see if there is anything that can be learned from them. i actually wrote the book to try to do that. and that book is called issues on my mind. secretary shultz, but is the main issue on your mind today? the main issue is the united states had a great deal of constructing after world war ii. in eff
romney family table. this interview is 50 minutes. a new book is coming out this fall. it s called the romney family table. ann romney as the author. when did you find time to put this together? i ve written a cookbook before but nobody would know that. having a mother that is a fantastic book and a grandmother that is a fantastic coke and being enormously blessed with only boy is in my life, when they got time to got married and i said all these family traditions and family recipes are going to get lost because my boys are boys and they won t be cooking. and so i made a cookbook of our family favorites and gave it to the daughter-in-law which meant i had five copies of something similar to this. so it is a greatly expanded from that time. but the other amazing thing that happened is that my love of cooking, my love of sharing and love of the family table was passed on to some of my sons and they do coke, some of my ways really do cook. so in this cookbook there are recip