George Schultz for Ronald Reagan and James Baker for George Bush senior did some hard deal-making in their day.

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Former secretary of state George Schultz is on Bechtel's board of directors.

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The book came out in 2008 along with huge pile of other reform books by luminaries like Tom Daschle and George Schultz.

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The clashes have echoes of an earlier and long-lasting division between Cap Weinberger and George Schultz, Mr Reagan's secretaries of defence and state.

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His efforts were honorably rebuffed by then secretary of state George Schultz who reportedly told Peres that he could not ignore the elected leader of Israel.

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It is a stand-out record, one that makes her the equal of the likes of James Baker, George Schultz or Henry Kissinger among our leading modern secretaries of state.

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Miller, the Middle East expert at the Wilson Center, cites legendary former secretaries such as Henry Kissinger, James Baker and George Schultz as diplomats who were empowered to create the policies that their presidents then implemented.

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Mr. Forbes' many contributions to the national interest will also be recognized by former Presidents George Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Richard Nixon, Vice President Dan Quayle, former Secretary of State George Schultz and former Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick.

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George Schultz is still Mr. Secretary.

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