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116TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 782 

Honoring the life, achievements, and distinguished public service of the 

Honorable George Pratt Shultz. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

DECEMBER 2, 2020 

Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself and Mr. VAN HOLLEN) submitted the following 

resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 

RESOLUTION 

Honoring the life, achievements, and distinguished public 

service of the Honorable George Pratt Shultz. 

Whereas, on December 13, 1920, the Honorable George Pratt 

Shultz was born in New York City as the only child of 

Margaret Lennox and Birl Earl Shultz; 

Whereas, upon graduating cum laude from Princeton University with a major in economics and a minor in public and 

international affairs in 1942, Shultz joined the Marines 

and nobly served his country as a captain with a Marine 

anti-aircraft unit deployed with the United States Army’s 

81st Infantry Division to the Pacific for the bitterly 

fought Battle of Angaur in the Palau Islands; 

Whereas, following the war, Shultz earned a doctorate in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology, where he taught in the Department of EcoVerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Dec 03, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR782.IS SR782

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nomics and at the Sloan School of Management until taking leave to serve on President Eisenhower’s Council of 

Economic Advisors; 

Whereas Shultz then went on to join the University of Chicago as Dean of the Graduate School of Business from 

1962 until 1968; 

Whereas Shultz left academia to honorably serve his country 

in a number of critical economic positions, including as 

Secretary of Labor, the country’s first Director of a modernized Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and 

Secretary of the Treasury; 

Whereas, during his time at the Department of the Treasury, 

Shultz co-founded the ‘‘Library Group’’, which helped coordinate follow-up to the abolishment of the gold standard and the Bretton Woods system and develop what 

would eventually become the ‘‘Group of Seven’’ or the 

‘‘G–7’’, an important forum that has strengthened international economic and security policy by regularly bringing together the world’s advanced economies to assess 

global trends and tackle pervasive and crosscutting 

issues; 

Whereas Shultz served as Secretary of State from 1982 until 

1989 and was directly involved in bringing Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan together 

through a process based upon mutual and verifiable 

trust, thereby allowing them to reach agreement on the 

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (the INF 

Treaty), which eliminated ground-launched ballistic and 

cruise missiles with ranges of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers, and to initiate negotiations to reduce long-range 

strategic nuclear arms; 


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Whereas, during his tenure as Secretary of State, Shultz had 

a strong and mutually supportive relationship with the 

career Foreign Service, which he relied upon heavily to 

advance key international initiatives and attain the foreign policy achievements of the Reagan Administration; 

Whereas Shultz recognized the need to better prepare a new 

generation of diplomatic service officers, whether Foreign 

or Civil Service, and ensured the creation of what became 

the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training 

Center (NFATC), thus expanding short-term skills training to hundreds of ever more diverse Department of 

State and Federal Government personnel; 

Whereas, upon returning to private life in 1989, Shultz became a Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University’s 

Hoover Institution, wrote and edited several books, and 

received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, along with 

more than a dozen other awards and prizes; 

Whereas, in his later years, Shultz passionately advocated for 

a world without nuclear weapons; 

Whereas Shultz recently called for the strengthening and 

modernization of the professional education and training 

of our career diplomats: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) honors the life, achievements, and distin3 guished public service of the Honorable George 

4 Pratt Shultz; 

5 (2) recognizes Shultz on the occasion of his 

6 100th birthday and expresses its thanks and com7 mendations to his family; 


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1 (3) celebrates the statesmanship that has con2 sistently characterized Shultz’s life; 

3 (4) acknowledges Shultz’s published concern for 

4 rebuilding and strengthening United States diplo5 macy and its home institution, the Department of 

6 State, and his call for the creation of a school of di7 plomacy at the National Foreign Affairs Training 

8 Center; and 

9 (5) commends to future generations Shultz’s ex10 ample as a patriot and public servant both in war 

11 and in the pursuit of a more peaceful, prosperous, 

12 and cooperative world order. 

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