2 Quotes & Sayings By George Shultz
George Shultz was born in 1924, the son of Lithuanian immigrants. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a bachelor's degree in political science. He then went to Harvard, where he earned his law degree. He practiced law in San Francisco for five years before being appointed general counsel to the Federal Trade Commission
He later became director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection and then Secretary of Labor for President Richard M. Nixon. One of his key accomplishments as labor secretary was persuading Congress to repeal a controversial labor law that had been passed during the Truman administration.