George Shultz, Ronald Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, dies at 100

Shultz spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East

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.

A titan of American academia, business and diplomacy, Shultz died Saturday at his home on the campus of Stanford University, according to the Hoover Institution, a thinktank where he was a distinguished fellow.