Ex-US Secretary of State George Shultz dies at 100

Washington, Feb 8 : George Shultz, who served as US Secretary of State in the Ronald Reagan administration and helped steer the Cold War to a peaceful end, has passed away at the age of 100.
His passing was announced on Sunday by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where Shultz had worked for more than three decades, reports Xinhua news agency.
He died at his home in California. The cause of his passing was not mentioned.
“Our colleague was a great American statesman and a true patriot in every sense of the word. He will be remembered in history as a man who made the world a better place,” Condoleezza Rice, a former Secretary of State and current Director of the Hoover Institution, said in a statement issued by the Institution.
Shultz is one of the only two Americans to have held four different federal cabinet-level positions.
He served as Secretary of Labour, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Secretary of the Treasury in the Richard Nixon administration.