Former U.S. Secretary of State George Schultz attends a birthday celebration held in honor of Ronald Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library February 6, 2011 in Simi Valley, California. (Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images) WASHINGTON - President Ronald Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, George P.
Shultz, who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, has died.
He was 100.Shultz died Saturday at his home on the campus of Stanford University, according to the Hoover Institution, a think tank where he was a distinguished fellow.Shultz held three major Cabinet posts in Republican administrations during a long career of public service.