George Shultz, a pillar of the Republican foreign-policy establishment whose diplomacy helped seal the end of the Cold War, has died, according to a family statement. He was 100 years old.
Mr. Shultz held four different cabinet posts in the Nixon and Reagan administrations and served for six years as President Reagan’s secretary of state, one of the longest such tenures since World War II. He remained an active voice on national security, economic and environmental issues after leaving government, sometimes taking positions challenging the Trump administration.
A man of strong convictions who nevertheless rarely lost control of his emotions, Mr. Shultz played a pivotal role in encouraging Mr. Reagan to pursue a dialogue with the Soviet Union’s leaders despite strong opposition from the Pentagon and, at times, the president’s own national-security adviser. “I always thought of Shultz as a stabilizer,” said John Lewis Gaddis, the Yale University professor and Cold War historian. “If you think of great ships going across the ocean, the captain sets the course, but somebody has to keep it on course.”
Born in New York, Mr. Shultz initially made his mark as an economist. After graduating from Princeton University, he earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught for nearly a decade. He later served as dean of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and as a fellow at Stanford University before President Nixon picked him in 1969 to serve as secretary of labor.
Very famous in the 70/90s. Condolences!
Perhaps America’s greatest Secretary of State, a man of unparalleled integrity and one of your finest public servants. How we need world leaders of this calibre now...
Great statesman and a great San Franciscan. RIP.
RIP
My father did business with Shultz in the 90s when they had many enjoyable dinners; George was by all accounts fabulous company. I lost my extraordinary Dad recently too; The world really is a much poorer for the absence of the wisdom of the generations that navigated the C20th.
Arguably the most important thing Schultz did was help implement the plan Prez Nixon personally developed to peacefully desegregate southern schools in 1970. He spoke of it here - and a movie should be made of this civilrights landmark
Only the good die young
RIP
We should expect no less from a despot that has turned DC into a militarized zone with thousands of foot soldiers, 10-foot-high fencing and razor wire, reminiscent of East Berlin under the USSR. Biden has formed DC into a vision of third-world dictatorship.
RIP
Fuck! If I was to live that long it’d be another 49+ yrs. I don’t have enough money to maintain. Lol
A true Statesman RIPGeorgeSchultz
An impressive statesman. Lived a full live indeed. RIP
I made an interview with him 1986. In Washington DC. He was impressive.
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