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Reagan's longtime secretary of state George P. Shultz dies

by Matthew Lee
| February 7, 2021 10:36 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 100.

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