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Reagan's longtime secretary of state George P. Shultz dies
 WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 100.Shultz died Saturday at his home on the campus of Stanford University, where he was a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution, a think tank, and professor emeritus at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. The Hoover Institution announced Shultz’s death on Sunday. A cause of death was not provided. A lifelong Republican, Shultz held three major Cabinet positions in GOP administrations during a lengthy career of public service. He was labor secretary, treasury secretary and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Richard M. Nixon before spending more than six years as President Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state. Shultz was the longest serving secretary of state since World War II and had been the oldest surviving former Cabinet member of any administration. Condoleezza Rice, also a former secretary of state and current director of the Hoover Institution, said in a statement that Shultz "will be remembered in history as a man who made the world a better place." Related: George P. Shultz: 2015-01-30 Code Pink Tries to Arrest 91-Year-Old Kissinger for 'War Crimes,' Get Smacked Down by 94-Year-Old George Shultz George P. Shultz: 2007-03-18 GOP: From Nation-Builders to Ideologue-Crushers? George P. Shultz: 2007-01-05 White House Postponing Loss of Iraq, Biden Says Posted by: Besoeker 2021-02-08 |
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