George Shultz

Legalization of drugs: Bravo! for all of us. I'm Colombian and as such I've suffered the horror that this last year's illegal business has produced not only to our Third World society, but to the American people. Violence has been the medium in which this demand-and-supply deal has taken place. I do not want youngsters depending on drugs and most of all I do not want youngsters seeing this business as the only way out of poverty. Let's legalize, let's take the criminal part away from selling and buying.

Mitt Romney was endorsed by former secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and George Shultz at a fund-raiser here Wednesday night, with both arguing that Romney is best suited to right the nation's economy and standing in the world. Shultz noted that he had served Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan, and knew both Bushes well, and said he recognized leadership and saw it in Romney. “Look at these people, and you see they have good minds, not just intellects, but some sort of creative ability to grasp the depth of what's going on and that's really important and this man has that kind of mind,” Shultz told 300 people at a hilltop castle in this Bay Area suburb.

Former Secretary of Labor George Shultz, who helped establish one of the nation's first affirmative action programs, came out Thursday in favor of a California initiative to end such efforts. Shultz, a Stanford University professor and a fellow at the Hoover Institution who headed the U.S. Labor Department in the Nixon administration, deemed present affirmative action programs "counterproductive."

The Partnership Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb Philip Taubman Harper: 496 pp., $29.99 The op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal caught the nuclear world by surprise. Not for the argument it made but for who was making it. The piece ran five years ago this month, under the headline "A World Free of Nuclear Weapons," and was written by a remarkable bipartisan quartet of political figures: former secretaries of State Henry A. Kissinger(Nixon)

It is amazing that our secretary of state, George Shultz, refused to submit to a lie detector test. More so, it is astonishing that his adamant attitude negated the White House directive. What would have been the fate of the directive if one other than George had taken the same stand? It is not a question of whether the procedure was right or wrong. The courts could decide that issue. It is indeed a question if directives should be all inclusive or not. No one man should be deemed so important that he can overturn presidential directives.

Former President George Bush misrepresented his role in the arms-for-hostage deals with Iran while he was vice president, former Secretary of State George P. Shultz says in memoir excerpts published Sunday. In the excerpts, which appear in Time magazine, Shultz says he was "astonished" to read a 1987 interview in the Washington Post in which Bush said no one strongly opposed the arms deals during 1985 and 1986 White House meetings. Shultz remembers those meetings differently.

In their first public remarks on the Tower Commission report on the Iran- contra scandal, Cabinet Secretaries George P. Shultz and Caspar W. Weinberger Thursday rejected criticism that they had distanced themselves from the affair. Secretary of State Shultz, who was traveling in China, disputed the conclusion of the commission, headed by former Sen. John Tower (R-Tex.), that he had intentionally avoided learning details of the U.S.

After serving longer than only two other secretaries of state since World War II, George P. Shultz remains a mystery. Like his long-lived predecessors John Foster Dulles and Dean Rusk, Shultz is known as a man of integrity. But, unlike them, he has been unable to put his stamp on America's foreign policy.

He was a week into his 30,000-mile tour of Asia, in the third of the nine Pacific Rim cities he would visit, when Secretary of State George P. Shultz allowed himself to talk, fleetingly, of the life he plans at the end of the Reagan Administration. "I'll be back at Stanford next year," he told an audience in Indonesia. "They offered me a chair there. I told them I'm working hard and, by the time I get there, I may not need a chair. I may need a couch."

The fight over Proposition 23 , a November ballot initiative to suspend California's global warming law, turned ugly this week, with personal attacks and emotionally charged rhetoric on both sides. In a conference call with the news media Thursday, former Secretary of State George Shultz, co-chairman of the campaign against the initiative, warned of the danger to national security from dependence on oil imports, noting that part of "this money is undoubtedly slopping over into the hands of terrorists.

Former U.S. secretary of State George P. Shultz believes it's crucial to fight global warming to protect national security. Global warming is created by burning fossil fuel, he says, and payments for foreign oil sometimes wind up financing terrorism. And Shultz, who's also a former Treasury secretary, thinks the nation suffers an "economic vulnerability" because of its oil addiction. "While we have benefited from low-priced energy," he says, "we've also suffered from periodic spikes in the price of oil. Usually recessions go along with it."

In a dispute that commingles foreign policy and a quest for political advantage, U.S.-Israel relations have taken an unexpectedly central role in the California race for Senate. Rivals in the race for the Republican nomination are questioning whether former Rep. Tom Campbell is sufficiently supportive of Israel. They base their criticisms on his voting record, statements about a Palestinian homeland and capital, and some of his past associates. Their allegations have raised enough concerns for Campbell that he plans to meet Monday with the influential American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Hailed for his expertise in domestic and foreign policy, former Secretary of State George P. Shultz received the Richard M. Nixon Library's Victory of Freedom Award during a black-tie gala on the 90th anniversary of the former president's birth. "Tonight we honor an extraordinary diplomat and policymaker who worked on both a national and global canvas," library executive director John H. Taylor told guests at the dinner, held Thursday in the Yorba Linda facility's flag-draped entrance hall.

Former Secretary of Labor George Shultz, who helped establish one of the nation's first affirmative action programs, came out Thursday in favor of a California initiative to end such efforts. Shultz, a Stanford University professor and a fellow at the Hoover Institution who headed the U.S. Labor Department in the Nixon administration, deemed present affirmative action programs "counterproductive."

The President's men did not know what to do. The private meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan was only supposed to last 15 minutes. But they had been locked together inside a small Geneva boathouse for more than twice that long. When one Reagan aide asked then-Secretary of State George P. Shultz whether he should interrupt, Shultz replied: "If you're stupid enough to go in and break up that meeting, then you don't deserve the job you have."

Gov. Pete Wilson on Tuesday named an all-star team of conservative intellectuals to his newly formed Council of Economic Advisers, including two Nobel Prize winners and four people who teach at Stanford University or are fellows at its free-market-oriented think tank, the Hoover Institution. The council, headed by former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, also includes the chairmen of two of California's biggest corporations--BankAmerica and Southern California Edison.

Former President George Bush misrepresented his role in the arms-for-hostage deals with Iran while he was vice president, former Secretary of State George P. Shultz says in memoir excerpts published Sunday. In the excerpts, which appear in Time magazine, Shultz says he was "astonished" to read a 1987 interview in the Washington Post in which Bush said no one strongly opposed the arms deals during 1985 and 1986 White House meetings. Shultz remembers those meetings differently.