Secretary of State For Reagan
On July 16, 1982, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as the sixtieth U.S. Secretary of State, replacing Alexander Haig, who had resigned. Shultz would serve for six and a half years - the longest tenure since Dean Rusk.
Shultz relied primarily on the Foreign Service to formulate and implement Reagan’s foreign policy. By the summer of 1985, Shultz had personally selected most of the senior officials in the Department, emphasizing professional over political credentials in the process. The Foreign Service responded in kind by giving Shultz its “complete support,” making him the most popular Secretary since Dean Acheson and, along with Acheson and George Marshall, one of the most admired Secretaries in the 20th century. Shultz' success came from not only the respect he earned from the bureaucracy but the strong relationship he forged with Reagan, who trusted him completely.
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