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While delivering this year’s Drell Lecture, U.S. Congressman Ted Lieu questioned the constitutionality of the American president’s ability to unilaterally order a nuclear strike.
George Shultz, counsel and Cabinet member for two Republican presidents, dies at 100 Michael Abramowitz and David E. Hoffman, The Washington Post Feb. 7, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Edward Miller, right, is sworn in as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board by Justice Byron White as Secretary of Labor George Shultz and his wife, Anne Harmon Miller, look on in June 1970.Washington Post photo by Harry Naltchayan On Sunday, Oct. 12, 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had reached a climactic moment in their summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Gorbachev proposed swe...
Shultz earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in economics in 1942. After graduating, Shultz served in the Pacific theater as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps from 1942 to 1945, eventually becoming a captain. While stationed in Hawaii, Shultz met his first wife, Army nurse Helena "O'Bie" O'Brien, with whom he had five children. They were married for 49 years until her passing in 1995. He married Charlotte Mailliard, chief of protocol for the state of California, in 1997. After his military service, Shultz continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whe...