[1] Shultz played a major role in shaping the foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration. [45] He called the War on Drugs a failure,[45] and added his signature to an advertisement printed in The New York Times in 1998, headlined "We believe the global war on drugs is now causing more harm than drug abuse itself." Shultz was married to Helena "Obie" O'Brien, an Army nurse he met in the Pacific in World War II, and they had five children. [30] Shultz subsequently negotiated an agreement between Israel and Lebanon and convinced Israel to begin partial withdrawal of its troops in January 1985 despite Lebanon's contravention of the settlement. Remembering Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz Obituaries | kjas.com ___ Longtime AP . George McRay Standley was born on January 28, 1928, in Port Arthur, Texas, to George Thomas and Vera Rusha Hugghins Standley. [46], Shultz was an early advocate of the presidential candidacy of George W. Bush, whose father, George H. W. Bush, was Reagan's vice president. Reagan himself in 1983 dubbed the Soviet Union the evil empire. Share Your Memories and Sympathies and Join the Bereaved! Helena died in 1995, and two years later he married Charlotte Mailliard. Shultz is widely marveled for his efforts in ending the "Cold War" and for strengthening ties in Asia with China and Japan. There were only four in the room at the isolated Hfi House, where the Reykjavik summit was held: Reagan, Gorbachev, Shevardnadze and Shultz. The administration soon backed off the demand. First, he was pressed to use Treasury tax officials to harass names on Nixons enemies listand refused. Although Shultz fell short of his goal to put the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel on a course to a peace agreement, he shaped the path for future administrations' Mideast efforts by legitimizing the Palestinians as a people with valid aspirations and a valid stake in determining their future. George Pratt Shultz was born Dec. 13, 1920, in New York City and was raised in Englewood, New Jersey. Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced. Coleman, Bradley Lynn and Kyle Longley, eds. One of his first steps at the state department was symbolic, removing a prominent 20ft abstract painting with a red line falling from one end to the other. Visitation will be on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at George Boom Funeral Home & On-Site Crematory, Sioux Falls from 5:00-7:00 . George Pratt Shultz was born December 13, 1920, in New York City and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. When he was three the family moved to New Jersey. As reported in the State Department's official history, "by the summer of 1985, Shultz had personally selected most of the senior officials in the Department, emphasizing professional over political credentials in the process [] The Foreign Service responded in kind by giving Shultz its 'complete support,' making him one of the most popular Secretaries since Dean Acheson. Members of the committee laughed out loudwith him, and against their fellow senator. Shultz also promoted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes at major forums, including Stanford University's Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and was on record supporting her in major media publications. He studied economics and public and international affairs at Princeton University, graduating in 1942. "Now that we know so much about these weapons and their power," Shultz said in an interview in 2008, "they're almost weapons that we wouldn't use, so I think we would be better off without them. Former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz dies at age 100 Archdiocese mourns death of retired auxiliary bishop Lets eliminate them.. He was attached to the U.S. Army 81st Infantry Division during the Battle of Angaur (Battle of Peleliu). As a former Marine, he described the suicide bombing as his worst day in office. They were returning after arms talks with the Soviet Union in Geneva. After the war, Shultz earned a PhD in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Foreign policy-making as such was not his beat, and just then it was a war zone of clashing opinions: especially on whether the icy stand-off between America and the Soviet Union could ever be unfrozen. Service in the Pacific included the taking of the Palau islands in 1944, when more than 2,000 Americans and 10,000 Japanese were killed. The fall of the Berlin Wall followed quickly, and with it Soviet suzerainty over half of Europe. In the early 1980s he started discreet meetings with the Soviet ambassador in Washington, Anatoly Dobrynin, and introduced him to Reagan. They married in 1946 and had five children. A pragmatist, Shultz, along with former GOP Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, made headlines during the 2016 presidential campaign when he declined to endorse Republican nominee Donald Trump after being quoted as saying "God help us" when asked about the possibility of Trump in the White House. [40], During the First Intifada (see ArabIsraeli conflict), Shultz "proposed an international convention in April 1988 on an interim autonomy agreement for the West Bank and Gaza Strip, to be implemented as of October for a three-year period". George Pratt Shultz was born Dec. 13, 1920, in New York City and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. He spoke firmly. Nixon was caught on tape in the White House describing Shultz as a candy-ass, a coward. This article was amended on 8 February 2021. He was an economics adviser to the actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who served as governor of California from 2003 to 2011, and was co-chair of a campaign in 2010 against a move to roll back the states environmental protection laws. She survives him, along with the children from his first marriage, Margaret, Kathleen, Peter, Barbara and Alexander, 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. He spoke firmly. He ranged widely over domestic and . [12] In 1938, Shultz graduated from the private preparatory boarding high school Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut. Shultz retired from public office in 1989 but remained active in business and politics. / CBS San Francisco. Shultz played a major role in shaping the foreign policy of the . With George Shultz, the United States has lost its greatest secretary of state since Dean Acheson, the architect of the post-World War II global order under President . [23], Meanwhile, Shultz's attention was increasingly diverted from the domestic economy to the international arena. [7][58][59] He was a prominent figure in the ensuing scandal. 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. As the nation's chief diplomat, Shultz negotiated the first-ever treaty to reduce the size of the Soviet Union's ground-based nuclear arsenals despite fierce objections from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to Reagan's "Strategic Defense Initiative" or Star Wars. Born in New York, George was the son of Margaret (nee Pratt) and Birl Shultz, who in 1922 helped found the New York Institute of Finance to train those working on Wall Street. It is believed on several occasions, Shultz resigned however President Reagan refused his resignation. He studied economics at Princeton and after graduating in 1942 joined the Marines. Charlotte Mailliard Shultz, who reigned as San Francisco's chief of protocol for more than half a century, died Friday of complications from cancer surrounded by loved ones at her Stanford . Once, in Fort Worth, he neatly outwitted a hotel receptionist who insisted she had no room for the black colleague travelling with him. He persevered, opening up a secret channel to the Soviet Union and gradually winning over Reagan, with whom he established a close bond. [38] The treaty, which eliminated an entire class of missiles in Europe, was a milestone in the history of the Cold War. In Washington his key friend was his tennis partner Kay Graham, owner of the Washington Post. Bush, flew to Moscow and met him at the funeral of his predecessor . Funeral arrangements . He served in various positions under two different Republican presidents and is one of the only two persons to have held four different Cabinet-level posts, the other being Elliot Richardson. Many politicians and diplomats from the 1980s lay claim to a pivotal role in ending the cold war, but the former US secretary of state George Shultz, who has died aged 100, had a better claim than most. [18], Shultz was President Richard Nixon's Secretary of Labor from 1969 to 1970. Senator Sam Nunn. George Shultz Wife Charlotte Mailliard Shultz. Your browser does not support the
