Remembering George Shultz, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State - AMAC - The Association of Mature American Citizens
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 ...
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