[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 203 (Wednesday, December 2, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S7180]
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                         SUBMITTED RESOLUTIONS

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      SENATE RESOLUTION 782--HONORING THE LIFE, ACHIEVEMENTS, AND 
   DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE HONORABLE GEORGE PRATT SHULTZ

  Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself and Mr. Van Hollen) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary:

                              S. Res. 782

       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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