He was labour secretary, treasury secretary and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Richard M. Nixon before spending more than six years as President Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state. “When trust was in the room, whatever room that was -- the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room -- good things happened. In 2000, he became an early supporter of the presidential candidacy of George W. Bush, whose father had been vice-president while Shultz was secretary of state. Shultz was married to Helena “Obie” O’Brien, an Army nurse he met in the Pacific in World War II, and they had five children. ___The story has been corrected to reflect that Shultz was the second-longest serving secretary of state since World War II.

Source: thestar February 07, 2021 18:01 UTC