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Shultz is a member of the Hoover Institution and the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. He also serves on the board of directors for the Bechtel Corporation, Gilead Sciences, and Charles Schwab & Company.
Shultz received a B.A. degree in economics from Princeton University in 1942Events January January 1 World War II: The word " United Nations" is first officially used to describe the Allied pact. January 2 World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces. January 5 Amy Johnson disappears in flight over River Thames estuary ass. and joined the U.S. Marine Corps and served until 1945Events January January 5 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. January 12 World War II:. In 19491949 is the common year starting on Saturday. see link for calendar) Events January-February January 4 RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage January 4 February 22 Series of winter storms in Nebraska, Wyoming,, Shultz earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMotto Mens et Manus ("mind and hand") Established 1861 School type Private President Charles Vest (successor Susan Hockfield to take office in December 2004) Location Cambridge, Mass. USA Enrollment 4,112 undergraduate, 6,228 graduate Faculty 974 Campus U degree in industrial economics .
He taught at MIT from 1948 to 1957, with a leave of absence in 1955 to serve on President Dwight Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers as a senior staff economist.
In 1957, Shultz joined the University of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a university located in Chicago, Illinois. Just over a century old, it includes departments and committees of: Physics, Economics, Music (theory), Sociology, Linguistics, Political Science, Social Thought, International Relati Graduate School of Business as professor of industrial relations. Later, he was named dean in 1962.
Shultz served as President Richard NixonRichard Milhous Nixon ( January 9, 1913 April 22, 1994) was the thirty-sixth ( 1953 1961) Vice President, and the thirty-seventh ( 1969 1974) President of the United States. He is the only man to have been elected twice to the Vice Presidency and twice to's secretary of labor from 1969 to 1970, after which he was director of the Office of Management and Budget. He then became secretary of the Treasury from May 1972 to May 1974.
In 1974, he left government service to become president and director of Bechtel Group. On July 16, 1982, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as the sixtieth U.S. secretary of state. A dove on foreign policy, he frequently clashed with the more hawkish members of the Reagan administration. In paticular, he was well known for outspoken opposition to the "arms for hostages" scandal that would eventually become the Iran Contra situation. He left office on January 20, 1989.
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W. Willard Wirtz
|width="40%" align="center"|United States Secretary of Labor
1969–1970
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James D. Hodgson
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John B. Connally
|width="40%" align="center"|United States Secretary of the Treasury
1972–1974
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William E. Simon
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Alexander Haig
|width="40%" align="center"|United States Secretary of State
1982–1989
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James Baker