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At 100, we just lost George Shultz, Ronald Reagan’s even-tempered, sober-minded, and far-seeing Secretary of State, who helped end the Cold War, steer passions to reason, bend swords to plowshares. His influence continues and his example shines – not just for what he did, but how. My longest exposure to Shultz was watching him explain to a room full of Senators his worldview.  It was July 1982.  Shultz stood to replace Al Haig, who abruptly resigned at State. I was a young man in Reagan’s first-term White House.  Pressed hard, Shultz stayed cool. Years prior, he argued “the Soviet ...

George Shultz https://www.nysun.com/editorials/george-shultz/91413/ The death of Secretary of State George Shultz, coming at a moment when America seeks wise leadership, reminds us of what an impact a major cabinet member can have. And also of an encounter we had with him in Detroit, where, having returned from Vietnam, we started with the Wall Street Journal and, eventually, witnessed Shultz’s capacity to puncture pomposity with his Semper Fi spirit. Shultz was then, as best we recall, President Nixon’s budget director. He was in town on such business and called a press conference at the f...

© Getty Images I was nervous when I first met George Shultz in 2009. I was working at the United States Institute of Peace headquarters. Secretary Shultz had helped fund the building, and my boss, Ambassador Richard Solomon, had worked for Shultz and wanted me to meet him at the groundbreaking ceremony. Aware that Shultz had been secretary of labor, secretary of the Treasury, secretary of State, first director of the Cabinet-level Office of Management and Budget, former president of the engineering colossus Bechtel and a scholar at Stanford, I thought he might be a bit intimidating. Far fro...

Baggage check Print this article Now that the Trump administration has come to an unpleasant and ignominious close, a looming question remains: What will happen to the enmities incurred in what was a famously contentious administration? Many, if not most, former government officials stay in Washington, and they have long memories. Kennedy aide Chuck Daly recently wrote a memoir, Make Peace or Die, nearly 60 years after the end of the Kennedy administration. With post-administration tenures potentially continuing for as many as six decades, outgoing officials need to think about the enemies ...

Print this article Vice President Mike Pence is the unsung hero of the past four years. The courage and competence of Pence before and during the assault on the U.S. Capitol last week finally showed the world what has been occurring behind the scenes for the entire Trump presidency. As President Trump blundered from one needless controversy to another, it was Pence who kept the executive branch as a whole from careening entirely out of control. In some respects, Pence did for four years what former White House chief of staff Al Haig did for the final four months of Richard Nixon’s preside...