George Shultz, Who Led U.S. Cold-War Diplomacy, Dies
- He was a pragmatist as secretary of state under Ronald Reagan
- Helped Richard Nixon end the gold standard in the early 1970s
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George Shultz, who oversaw the decoupling of the U.S. dollar from the gold standard in the early 1970s and kept the gears of diplomacy running under the din of Cold War rhetoric as Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state a decade later, has died at 100.
Shultz died Feb. 6 at his home on the Stanford University campus, Stanford’s Hoover Institution announced. Shultz was the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at Hoover after leaving office.