[39], Two more events in 1988 persuaded Shultz that Soviet intentions were changing. Charlotte married former Secretary of State George Shultz in 1997. "He was well-known for his accomplishments on the world stage, but it's important to remember that he was a fierce advocate for what many of us consider 'San Francisco values', including the value of a high-quality public education, the value of accessible healthcare for all, and the value of mutual respect and dignity for people from all walks of life. He was a member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) board of advisors, the New Atlantic Initiative, the Mandalay Camp at the Bohemian Grove, and the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. Shultz is widely marveled for his efforts in ending the "Cold War" and for strengthening ties in Asia with China and Japan. He studied economics and public and international affairs at Princeton University, graduating . Reagan Sec. He was an informal but influential adviser on foreign policy to George W Bush. Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced. He died on Saturday at his home in Stanford, California . George Pratt Shultz was born Dec. 13, 1920, in New York City and raised in Englewood, New Jersey. When Shultz left office in January 1989, he said Americans were unable or unwilling to recognise that the cold war was over. He studied economics at Princeton and after graduating in 1942 joined the Marines. [73] Shultz sat on the board of directors of Xyleco[74] and Accretive Health.[75]. The long-reigning Chief of San Francisco Protocol and unofficial aide to ten City mayors, Charlotte Mailliard Shultz passed away Friday at 88 years old due to complications from cancer. [14], In 1949, Shultz earned a PhD in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [55], In January 2011, Shultz wrote a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to pardon Jonathan Pollard. February 8, 2021, 9:22 AM. Copyright The Economist Newspaper Limited 2023. Read Full Obituary. After the October 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 soldiers, Shultz worked tirelessly to end Lebanon's brutal civil war in the 1980s. [45] He served on the board of Gilead Sciences from 1996 to 2005. After Reagan left office, Shultz returned to Bechtel, having been the longest serving secretary of state since Cordell Hull under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 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. George Shultz, left, and then-California Gov. Hopkins, Michael F. "Ronald Reagan's and George HW Bush's Secretaries of State: Alexander Haig, George Shultz and James Baker.". [8][9], Shultz was born December 13, 1920, in New York City, the only child of Margaret Lennox (ne Pratt) and Birl Earl Shultz. "George Shultz on managing the White House. He was later its president and a director. Shultz served for six and a half years, the longest tenure since Dean Rusk's. ___ Longtime AP Diplomatic Writer Barry Schweid . [69] Shultz was chairman of JPMorgan Chase's international advisory council. He became one of the ultimate Washington insiders, serving under three presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan and worked on various federal task forces at the request of John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. Pee, Robert, and William Michael Schmidli, eds. Find the obituary of George R. Shultz (1946 - 2023) from Lebanon, PA. Leave your condolences to the family on this memorial page or send flowers to show you care. George Shultz, left, meeting one of his successors as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, at the state department, 2009. dancing at a White House dinner with Ginger Rogers, Sabra and Chatila camps in West Beirut in 1982, suicide bombing in the same city a year later. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. [50] He was co-chairman of the conservative Committee on the Present Danger. 2021 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. He retired from Bechtel's board in 2006 and returned to Stanford and the Hoover Institution. The resulting endorsement seemed so improbable thatat a tight moment in the race against Jimmy Carterit was cited by hundreds of media outlets across the United States. He is survived by his wife, Charlotte Shultz, his five children . Funeral arrangements were not immediately announced. He ranged widely over domestic and . He earned a Ph.D. in economics at MIT in 1949 and taught at MIT and at the University of Chicago, where he was dean of the business school. Preston, Andrew. In 2016 Theranos' "Board of Counselors" was "retired.". Various conciliatory gestures followed. 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[10] His great-grandfather was an immigrant from Germany who arrived in the United States in the middle of the 19th century. One of his most senior advisors and confidants was former ambassador Charles Hill. [5] In 2017, these Republican elder statesmen, along with Martin S. Feldstein and N. Gregory Mankiw, urged conservatives to embrace a carbon fee and dividend program. George Shultz became an executive in the Bechtel Corp. and later Secretary of State in the Reagan . [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. Shul. 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.". [49] Shultz supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing in support of U.S. military action months before the war began. The US and the Soviet Union, as part of that accord, destroyed thousands of missiles. 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. [35], U.S.Soviet tensions were raised by the announcement in March 1983 of the Strategic Defense Initiative, and exacerbated by the Soviet shoot-down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island on September 1. [11][23], Domestically Shultz enacted the next phase of the NEP, lifting price controls begun in 1971. "[2] He repeated this call in a September 2014 talk at MIT[3] and a March 2015 op-ed in The Washington Post. Shultz was awarded the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1989. He was a giant in our community and my condolences go out to his wife, Charlotte, and all of his family and friends. A year later, Shultz submitted to a government-wide drug test considered far more reliable. He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. Shultz passed away on February 6, 2021, two months after celebrating his one-hundredth birthday.The services took place at Stanford's Memorial Church, located near the main quad in the historic area of the . "Arab-Israel Peacemaking. NYT : George P. Shultz, Top Cabinet Official Under Nixon and Reagan, Dies at 100. of State George Shultz referred to the prospect of a Trump administration, today at @HooverInst George Shultz, the U.S. secretary of state who survived bitter infighting in President Ronald Reagan's administration to help forge a new era in American-Soviet relations and bring on the end of . [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. Mr. "[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.