[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 782 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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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.


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                   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

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                               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 Economics 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;
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
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) honors the life, achievements, and distinguished public 
        service of the Honorable George Pratt Shultz;
            (2) recognizes Shultz on the occasion of his 100th birthday 
        and expresses its thanks and commendations to his family;
            (3) celebrates the statesmanship that has consistently 
        characterized Shultz's life;
            (4) acknowledges Shultz's published concern for rebuilding 
        and strengthening United States diplomacy and its home 
        institution, the Department of State, and his call for the 
        creation of a school of diplomacy at the National Foreign 
        Affairs Training Center; and
            (5) commends to future generations Shultz's example as a 
        patriot and public servant both in war and in the pursuit of a 
        more peaceful, prosperous, and cooperative world order.
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