#Shultz100 | Social Media Toolkit
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and former Secretary George P. Shultz is celebrating his 100th birthday on Sunday, December 13th and we hope you will join us in thanking him for a lifetime of distinguished service!
On this site, you will find a “social media toolkit" with captions, quotes, and photos of Mr. Shultz’s incredible life. Post a tribute of your own or share one from any of the options in this kit. Get creative in showing what Mr. Shultz and his lifetime of service has meant to you. Share your own pictures, your favorite George P. Shultz anecdote or quote, or just share your best wishes for his special day.
Be sure to also use the hashtag #Shultz100 to celebrate 100 years (and counting) of George P. Shultz. Let’s share our love and admiration and make this centennial birthday one to remember!
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FIVE "FACTS" ABOUT GEORGE P. SHULTZ
- At 12 years old, George published a newspaper, The Weekly News, to rival his friend, Topper Cook’s paper.
- George Shultz started his undergraduate degree in the fall of 1938 at Princeton University. His senior thesis, "The Agricultural Program of the Tennessee Valley Authority", examined the Tennessee Valley Authority's effect on local agriculture, for which he conducted on-site research. While at Princeton, Shultz played football as a blocking back.
- Shultz was accepted into the industrial economics master's degree program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1943 but was interrupted by a tour of duty with the US Marine Corps during World War II. After World War II, George Shultz earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
- In 1957, Shultz joined the faculty of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business as a professor of industrial relations. Five years later, he was named dean of the graduate school.
- The Shultz family steak recipe has been used by George Shultz not only with family, but also with diplomats and dignitaries.
Click here for 100 facts about George P. Shultz over the past 100 years.
PHOTOS OF GEORGE P. SHULTZ
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QUOTES BY GEORGE P. SHULTZ
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George Shultz: Life After Government
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Shultz in his Bechtel office overlooking San Francisco Bay, 1976.
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Shultz showing his Princeton pride with in Princeton attire.
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Shultz at Stanford's Class of 1986 Commencement. Photo Credit: Stanford Library
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Dr. Lucy Shapiro and Professor Stuart Kim cheer as Shultz succeeds on his first attempt in the genetics lab, Stanford Medical Center, 1989.
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George Shultz standing with the Hoover Tower in the background.
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Shultz speaking at the Hoover Institution. Photo Credit: Stanford Library
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Shultz and Mikhail Gorbachev at Stanford, 1990.
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Shultz and Gorbachev in New York on March 26, 2009.
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George Shultz with Barack Obama.
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Bill Perry, George Shultz, President Obama, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office, May 19, 2009. The Four Caballeros explain their vision for a world free of nuclear weapons at President Obama’s invitation.
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President Obama hosts a Nuclear Tipping Point screening in the White House Theater. Another invitation to the White House—this time for a movie and popcorn.
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George Shultz and Governor Schwarzenegger, active participants in the effort to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Shultz sports one of his favorite ties that reminds, “Democracy is not a spectator sport”
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Shultz Family in 1993.
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George and Charlotte at their wedding, August 15, 1997.
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George, Charlotte, and Stanford at the Mailliard Ranch, Thanksgiving, 2006.
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George and Charlotte at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, December 2008.
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George and Charlotte at the San Francisco Opera Gala, 2009.
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George with his children.
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The Shultz family gathered around the fireplace at the Farm, August, 2009.
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Shultz's Hoover Portrait, 2010.
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Shultz doing an interview for Fox News in his Hoover office, January 7, 2009.
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Shultz speaking at the Energy Policies Conference, January, 19, 2010.
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George Shultz 90th Birthday at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Records. Photo Credit: Stanford Library
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Shultz speaking at the Hoover China Conference, May 8, 2012.
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Shultz speaking at the Hoover Brookings Conference, October 1, 2013.
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Shultz speaking at the North American Forum, November 15, 2014.
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George Shultz speak about "A World Awash With Change" at the Hoover Institution in Washington on January 30, 2015.
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George Shultz at Full Board Briefing, July 8 2015.
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Claudia Raisian, John Raisian, Bill Blount, George Shultz, Tom Tierney at the Ground Breaking for Hoover's David and Joan Traitel Building.
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George Shultz on his 95th Birthday.
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George Shultz at the Hoover Institution Fall Retreat, October 18 2015.
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Shultz speaking at Hoover Media Roundtable September 15, 2015.
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Shultz on an episode of Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, A Conversation with Former Secretary of State George Shultz, January 25, 2016.
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George and Charlotte at the topping off ceremonies for the new Hoover Institution building, on Sunday, April 17, 2016 on the Stanford University Campus.
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George Shultz at the Hoover Summer Board Meeting, July 12, 2016.
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Shultz with Hoover Fellow Jim Mattis and Lieutenant Colonel Eric Reid, the marine corps representative in the 2016–17 class of national security affairs fellows at the USMC 241st Birthday Celebration.
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Shultz speaking at Stuart Family Congressional Fellowship Program, April 18, 2017.
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George P. Shultz, the Thomas W. And Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, testifies on “Global Challenges and U.S. National Security Strategy” before the Senate Armed Forces Committee on January 25, 2018.
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Shultz, with Hoover Institution Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism Bill Whalen, at the Hoover Institution Summer Policy Boot Camp, August 20, 2018.
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George Shultz speaking at the MIT-Stanford Game Changers Symposium at the Hoover Institution offices in Washington, DC, on Sept. 18, 2018.
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Shultz speaking at Hoover Centennial Speaker Series: A Century of Prosperity: Improvements in the Standard of Living, 1919 vs. 2019, April 19 2019.
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Shultz making introductory remarks at Governance In An Emerging New World, October 7, 2019.
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Shultz at the United States Marine Corps 244th Birthday Celebration, November 11, 2019.
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Shultz at Hoover Berlin Wall Anniversity Dinner, November 11, 2019.
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Shultz speaking at the November 19, 2020, Hoover Centennial Series, Labor and Capital Market Policy: From Ideas to Actions over One Hundred Years.
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Shultz speaking at the Chiang Kai-shek & Chiang Ching-kuo Diaries event, December 17, 2019.
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Shultz speaking at the Mont Pelerin Society Special Meeting, January 15, 2020.
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Former Secretary of State George Shultz with Secretary Condoleezza Rice and Secretary Mike Pompeo at the Hoover Institution, January 13, 2020.
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Hoover Library & Archives staff members join Mr. Shultz in celebrating the opening of the new exhibition honoring Hoover Distinguished Fellow George P. Shultz.
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Shultz at ease in his historic Cabinet chair with plaques denoting his four Cabinet posts, September 29, 2010.
