Fmr Sec of State George Schultz (under Reagan) dies at 100

[Dennis Donovan]

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Daniel Lippman @dlippman

Breaking: Former Secretary of State George Shultz has died at 100.



12:13 PM · Feb 7, 2021

In reality, Reagan and Schultz had little to do with the end of the Cold War. That was more the USSR being inherently corrupt (and Gorbachev admitting it) than anything they did.

[roamer65]

1. Secretary of the Treasury under Nixon as well.

I remember his signature on the money in the 1970’s.

[DonaldsRump]

3. Nixon referred to him as a "candy ass"

and said on the tapes that that Shultz didn't get his position in the Nixon Administration "because of his blue eyes."

Another thing I don't get is why would anyone be a part of the Hoover Institution? There is something basically absurd about an institute named after the President who led the US into the Great Depression.

Anyway, RIP Mr. Shultz.

[roamer65]

4. Interesting.

Did not know that.

[PJMcK]

2. Bye bye

Not a fan of anything relating to Reagan.

[roamer65]

5. Yeah, the fall of the USSR was more due to quagmire called Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is where empires go to die.

The resistance to the Soviet occupation was set up in the Carter administration.

[Yavin4]

9. I would argue that the Chernobyl disaster did more to topple the old USSR

The massive lying and covering up of the truth could not be hidden from the world. Gorbachev said so himself.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Princeton Tiger

US Marine, too.

Hasta Siempre, Coronel.

[andym]

7. Shultz was a moderate in the Republican Party

who stayed a moderate-- he pushed a policy of detente with Gorbachev. He was against giving money to the Contra's. Later he supported a carbon tax. Before the last election, he strongly criticized the Trump administration's foreign policy for creating distrust.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/george-shultz-trump-essay/2020/10/30/869c1dde-1acf-11eb-bb35-2dcfdab0a345_story.html

He was reported to be a man of principles, he fought in WWII as a marine officer, was considered intelligent and flexible in his approach to government-- the most negative story about him was his role in trying to silence his grandson who worked at Elizabeth Hlme's company Theranos, which he promoted as a board member. He was deeply fooled by Holmes, as were many others.

[Polybius]

8. He died at 100 on Ronald Reagan's birthday

Talk about devotion.