He was a Republican, but more pragmatic than ideological. ", Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, reflecting in his memoirs on the "highly analytic, calm and unselfish Shultz," paid Shultz an exceptional compliment in his diary: "If I could choose one American to whom I would entrust the nation's fate in a crisis, it would be George Shultz.". Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced. [80], Shultz died at age 100 at his home in Stanford, California, on February 6, 2021. Shultz was quick to recognise the generational change taking place in 1985 when Gorbachev and his foreign minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, came to prominence. He was firmly opposed to and angered by the arms-for-hostages deal with Iran which evolved into an administration scandal. [78], In 1997, Shultz married Charlotte Mailliard Swig, a prominent San Francisco philanthropist and socialite. Shul. Joyce A. 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[76] And he has been member of the advisory board of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. He retired from Bechtel's board in 2006 and returned to Stanford and the Hoover Institution. The Montreal protocol of 1987 concerned ozone depletion rather than global warming. A funeral mass will be celebrated at the Stanford University Memorial Church at 10 a.m . [10][11], From 1942 to 1945, Shultz was on active duty in the U.S. Marine Corps. Longtime AP Diplomatic Writer Barry . Hopkins, Michael F. "Ronald Reagan's and George HW Bush's Secretaries of State: Alexander Haig, George Shultz and James Baker.". Lets eliminate them.. [62][63] Tyler was forced to leave the company in 2014 after raising concerns about its testing practices with Holmes and his grandfather. He created some controversy by calling the war on recreational drugs, championed by Reagan, a failure and raised eyebrows by decrying the longstanding U.S. embargo on Cuba as "insane.". of State George Shultz referred to the prospect of a Trump administration, today at @HooverInst Schultz was the longest serving secretary of state since World War II and had been the oldest surviving former Cabinet member of any administration. "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. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Obituary. ", "The world has lost a revered statesman and brilliant public servant with the passing of Secretary George Schultz," she said in a statement. Contrary to common assumption, Shultz was not a member of the Pratt family associated with John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Trust. After that spell in government, in 1974 he moved to the west coast as president of the engineering giant Bechtel, where he remained until Reagan invited him to become secretary of state, even though he had no experience of foreign affairs. He studied economics and public and international affairs at Princeton University, graduating in 1942. [6], In 2016, Shultz was one of eight former Treasury secretaries who called on the United Kingdom to remain a member of the European Union ahead of the "Brexit" referendum. He studied economics and public and international affairs at Princeton University, graduating in 1942. [71] Shultz was a member of the advisory board of Spirit of America, a 501(c)(3) organization. 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. "[66], Shultz had a long affiliation at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he was a distinguished fellow and, beginning in 2011, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow; from 2018 until his death, Shultz hosted events on governance at the institution. [38] The second event, according to Keren Yarhi-Milo of Princeton University, happened during the 19th Communist Party Conference, "at which Gorbachev proposed major domestic reforms such as the establishment of competitive elections with secret ballots; term limits for elected officials; separation of powers with an independent judiciary; and provisions for freedom of speech, assembly, conscience, and the press. Shultz was kept out of the loop: when the scandal broke, he was able to present himself as the voice of common sense in the administration, using the affair to wrest back Iran policy to the state department. The administration of US president Ronald Reagan was packed with anti-Soviet hardliners. He talked every week, secretly, to the Soviet ambassador in Washington, and warmed at once to Mikhail Gorbachev as a man with whom he could have a proper, quiet conversationone that led, in 1987, to a ban on intermediate-range nuclear forces. George Shultz was a great public servant, and America is better because of that service." . George P. Shultz was the U.S. Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, shaping foreign policy during the Cold War. Schultz once had an instruction to an ambassador about a foreign minister, "Keep him out of my thinning hair." Phyllis Oakley, Deputy Spokesperson at State Department 1986-89 said about Schultz, "When people talk about management of the Department . [64][65] Shultz continued to advocate for Holmes and Theranos. At one informal meeting, Shultz surprised Shevardnadze, who was from Georgia, by launching into a rendition of a well-known Georgian folk song he had learned for the occasion. "[2] He repeated this call in a September 2014 talk at MIT[3] and a March 2015 op-ed in The Washington Post. She survives him, along with the children from his first marriage, Margaret, Kathleen, Peter, Barbara and Alexander, 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. [66], When media reports exposed controversial practices there in 2015, the company moved their non-technical directors like Shultz to a "Board of Counselors" and replaced them with a technical board. Schultz was secretary of state for six and a half years in the 1980s when I was a member of the Senate . 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 . Shultz served for six and a half years, the longest tenure since Dean Rusk's. He was born February 22, 1929 the son of the late Joseph and Josephine (Zadroga) Shultz in Rivesville, WV. He spoke firmly. "Mr. Shultz was a policy maven, conservative but curious, patient and determined. After trust, his coin of the realm, cohesion mattered most. A Celebration of Life will be held March 5, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. at Shultz Funeral Home. Your browser does not support the