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.
George Shultz, who influenced geopolitics around the world as Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, served two other presidents and rose to the highest levels of business and academia in a career that touched seven decades, died Saturday at age 100. His death was announced by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he had long served as a distinguished fellow. Shultz died at his home on the university campus, Stanford said. Shultz.
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George Shultz, 1920-2021
George P. Shultz’s life gave meaning to the phrase “the greatest generation.” Upon graduation from Princeton in 1942, he enlisted in the Marines and stormed the beaches of Palau. A successful academic career led him from a professorship at MIT to becoming dean of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He served successfully as president of Bechtel, the global engineering firm. He held four cabinet-level positions in the U.S. government: Secretary of Labor, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Secretary of the Treasury, and finally Secretary of State for Ronald Reagan. And all that was after serving on the Council of Economic Advisers under Dwight D. Eisenhower. Henry Kissinger expressed the kind of confidence Shultz engendered: “If I could choose one American to whom I would entrust the nation’s fate in a crisis, it would be George Shultz.”