Master diplomat George Shultz, and his interworking with Soviet and Jewish affairs
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Master diplomat George Shultz, and his interworking with Soviet and Jewish affairs
World Jewish Congress president Ronald S. Lauder once asked the longtime U.S. statesman, who passed away at the age of 100 on Feb. 6, why he stood up for American and Israeli Jews when he was often pressured not to. He responded: “Because I thought you were right.”
(February 16, 2021 / JNS) The long-term secretary of state, George Shultz, who died on Feb. 6 at the age of 100, will be remembered most for his negotiations on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987 and the end of the Cold War. But more than that, Shultz told his biographer that he wanted to be remembered for securing the release of Soviet refuseniks, who for decades were denied the ability to immigrate to the State of Israel.
Economist served under three U.S. presidents, left mark on business school
George Pratt Shultz, a former University of Chicago Booth School of Business professor and dean who led a distinguished career in government, business and academia, died Feb. 6 at age 100.
Shultz was one of only two Americans to have held four different federal cabinet posts. He helped President Ronald Reagan resolve the Cold War as U.S. Secretary of State a role he filled after stints in the Nixon administration as labor secretary, treasury secretary and director of the Office of Management and Budget. He also served as a senior staff economist on President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Council of Economic Advisers.
George P. Shultz, Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, dies at 100
He spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East.
By MATTHEW LEE and BARRY SCHWEIDAssociated Press
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In this July 13, 1982, file photo Secretary of State designate George Shultz, right, speaks with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From left are Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Sen. Charles Percy, R-Ill., chairman of the panel, and Sen. Edward Zorinsky, D-Neb. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz, File)
George P. Shultz, who as secretary of State in the 1980s shaped U.S. foreign policy in the closing phase of the Cold War when a dangerous nuclear-armed stalemate gave way to peaceful – if not quite cordial – relations between the superpowers, died Saturday. He was 100.
Former US secretary of state George Shultz passes away at 100
Washington, Feb 8 (UNI) Former US secretary of state George P Shultz passed away at his home in California at the age of 100, according to the Hoover Institution at Stanford University where he worked for over 30 years. One of the most consequential policymakers of all time, having served three American presidents, George P. Shultz died Feb 6 (Saturday) at age 100. Remembered as one of the most influential secretaries of state in our history, 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 said in a statement on Sunday.
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