George Shultz, Reagan's Secretary Of State who also served under Nixon, has died at 100

[basquebromance]

they won't say his cause of death. weird

George Shultz, former Reagan secretary of state who helped negotiate end of Cold War, dead at 100

Former Secretary of State George Shultz, an influential foreign policy figure during President Ronald Reagan’s administration, died Saturday, on Reagan's birthday, at age 100 at his home in Stanford, California, the Hoover Institution said Sunday.

www.foxnews.com

 

[blackhawk]

Considering he was 100 I would say take your pick it could have been any number of things in any event I suspect the insults towards him will start shortly.

 

[skye]

RIP G.Shultz.

100 years old, that's a nice long life.

 

[Meathead]

A completely competent man who was a PhD but didn't use the term Dr like Suzie Rice and many of the idiots who took his place or even Jill Biden. I miss people of his caliber in government.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

A life of public service--one of the old time liberals, in many respects, despite his party.

Example--as Sec. Labor he was the very first to implement racial quotas..affirmative action, at the Federal level.

George Shultz - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Born in New York City, he graduated from Princeton University before serving in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. After the war, Shultz earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He taught at MIT from 1948 to 1957, taking a leave of absence in 1955 to take a position on President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers. After serving as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, he accepted President Richard Nixon's appointment as United States Secretary of Labor. In that position, he imposed the Philadelphia Plan on construction contractors who refused to accept black members, marking the first use of racial quotas by the federal government. In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management and Budget, and he served in that position until his appointment as United States Secretary of the Treasury in 1972. In that role, Shultz supported the Nixon shock (which sought to revive the ailing economy in part by abolishing the gold standard) and presided over the end of the Bretton Woods system.

Shultz left the Nixon administration in 1974 to become an executive at Bechtel. After becoming president and director of that company, he accepted President Ronald Reagan's offer to serve as United States Secretary of State. He held that office from 1982 to 1989. Shultz pushed for Reagan to establish relations with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which led to a thaw between the United States and the Soviet Union. He opposed the U.S. aid to rebels trying to overthrow the Sandinistas using funds from an illegal sale of weapons to Iran that led to the Iran–Contra affair.

Shultz retired from public office in 1989 but remained active in business and politics. He served as an informal adviser to George W. Bush and helped formulate the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war. He served on the Global Commission on Drug Policy, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Economic Recovery Council, and on the boards of Bechtel and the Charles Schwab Corporation.

Beginning in 2013, Shultz advocated for a revenue-neutral carbon tax as the most economically sound means of mitigating anthropogenic climate change.[2][3][4][5][6] He was a member of the Hoover Institution, the Institute for International Economics, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and other groups.

 

[basquebromance]

he believed in climate change in later life, despite previously working for Reagan

 

[Oddball]

Another lifer swamp reptile bites the dust.

BFD

 

[basquebromance]

He was known for telling the truth...i think that's a mistake!

 

[basquebromance]

rare pic of George with Joe Biden

 

[Likkmee]

Shultz retired from public office in 1989 but remained active in business and politics. He served as an informal adviser to George W. Bush and helped formulate the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war. He served on the Global Commission on Drug Policy, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Economic Recovery Council, and on the boards of Bechtel and the Charles Schwab Corporation.

Beginning in 2013, Shultz advocated for a revenue-neutral carbon tax as the most economically sound means of mitigating anthropogenic climate change.[2][3][4][5][6] He was a member of the Hoover Institution, the Institute for International Economics, the Washington

YAY. Another "hero".