Shultz is a repairman, but we need a strategist.
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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and Secretary of State George Schultz testifies before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee February 29,2000 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Daunting foreign policy challenges confront the United States during the Reagan era. But there are also delicious opportunities for leaders with imagination and a sense of strategy if such leaders we only had. The Soviet Union has achieved military parity with the United States, its leadership is in transition, and new technologies threaten traditional patterns of both nuclear deterrence and arms control. It is a moment for creative superpower diplomacy. At the same time, as Europe becomes “Europeanized” increasingly preoccupied with its own identity and its relationship to the East American leaders need to work on restructuring Atlantic relationships. The time also has been right for creative movement in the Middle E
Former Secretary of State George Shultz has died at the age of 100. He s remembered by journalist Philip Taubman, who s writing the first comprehensive biography of his life.
A man of broad experience and talents, Shultz achieved success in statesmanship, business and academia. Lawmakers praised him for opposing as sheer folly the sale of arms to Iran that were the cornerstone of the Iran-Contra scandal that marred Reagan's second term in office.
ANKARA Former US Secretary of State George Shultz died Saturday at the age of 100 at his home on the campus of Stanford University, the Hoover Institution