A resolution honoring the life, achievements, and distinguished public service of the Honorable George Pratt Shultz.

III 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 Univer- sity 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 in- dustrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he taught in the Department of Eco- VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Dec 03, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR782.IS SR782 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 2 •SRES 782 IS nomics and at the Sloan School of Management until tak- ing leave to serve on President Eisenhower’s Council of Economic Advisors; Whereas Shultz then went on to join the University of Chi- cago 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 mod- ernized 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 co- ordinate follow-up to the abolishment of the gold stand- ard 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 inter- national economic and security policy by regularly bring- ing 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 Presi- dent 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 kil- ometers, and to initiate negotiations to reduce long-range strategic nuclear arms; VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Dec 03, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR782.IS SR782 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 3 •SRES 782 IS 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 for- eign 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 train- ing to hundreds of ever more diverse Department of State and Federal Government personnel; Whereas, upon returning to private life in 1989, Shultz be- came 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 Resolved, That the Senate— 1 (1) honors the life, achievements, and distin- 2 guished public service of the Honorable George 3 Pratt Shultz; 4 (2) recognizes Shultz on the occasion of his 5 100th birthday and expresses its thanks and com- 6 mendations to his family; 7 VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Dec 03, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\SR782.IS SR782 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS 4 •SRES 782 IS (3) celebrates the statesmanship that has con- 1 sistently characterized Shultz’s life; 2 (4) acknowledges Shultz’s published concern for 3 rebuilding and strengthening United States diplo- 4 macy and its home institution, the Department of 5 State, and his call for the creation of a school of di- 6 plomacy at the National Foreign Affairs Training 7 Center; and 8 (5) commends to future generations Shultz’s ex- 9 ample as a patriot and public servant both in war 10 and in the pursuit of a more peaceful, prosperous, 11 and cooperative world order. 12 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 04:33 Dec 03, 2020 Jkt 019200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\SR782.IS SR782 kjohnson on DSK79L0C42PROD with BILLS