George P. Shultz, counsel and Cabinet member for two Republican presidents, dies at 100
Source: Washington Post
George P. Shultz, one of only two people to serve the United States in four Cabinet-level posts and a major force in economic and foreign policy in two Republican administrations, died Feb. 6 at his home in Stanford, Calif. He was 100. The Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where Dr. Shultz was long affiliated after stepping down as secretary of state in 1989, announced the death but did not provide additional details.
Dr. Shultz’s prodigious inside knowledge of the U.S. government was rivaled by few figures in recent memory, and his soft-spoken, cerebral manner obscured his strong conservative views about the wisdom of keeping spending under control, limiting government regulation and vigorously confronting terrorists. He was famously a pragmatist on some of the consequential issues he faced while in power. As President Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, Dr. Shultz played a critical role in the dramatic easing of tensions between the United States and Soviet Union that took place during the late 1980s.
Unlike some of his colleagues in the administration, Dr. Shultz thought that Mikhail Gorbachev represented a departure from previous Soviet leaders and pressed Reagan, against bureaucratic and political obstacles, to pursue a more constructive relationship with the United States' longtime Cold War adversary.
As President Richard M. Nixon's top economic adviser in the preceding decade, Dr. Shultz helped implement wage and price controls, even though he opposed the policy in private, and he was involved in the abandonment of the Bretton Woods agreement that had governed currency fluctuations since the end of World War II.
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I knew he was still around but didn't realize his age!
Scanning around, he apparently just released a book last April so he was still out "on the road". I guess that was his last "achievement" to finish...
https://www.hoover.org/news/qa-george-p-shultz-and-john-b-taylor-economic-policy-lessons-now-and-future
That entire wing of the GOP have not only been thrown under the bus, but under a bus that was rolled off a cliff to plunge into a deep canyon with them under it.
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Hardly a "favorite" of mine, but looks pretty good (i.e., night and day) compared to anyone in the Trump camp. So, RIP, Dr. Schultz.
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He was an old-time, old-line Republican, back when they had a big tent and room for lots of people in it. He served his country in many capacities and is one of the few people to have had three Cabinet appointments.
