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Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass on Wednesday announced that he has officially left the Republican Party, invoking a version of former President Reagan’s famous quote: “I didn’t leave the Republican Party; the Party left me.” Haass, a veteran diplomat who worked under multiple presidential administrations, tweeted Wednesday that he had changed his voter registration to "no party affiliation" after 40 years as a member of the Republican Party. “I worked for Reagan & Bush 41 & 43. But today’s Rep Party no longer embraces the policies & principles that led me to join it,” Haass wrote. ADVERTISEMENT “To paraphrase Ronald Reagan , I didn’t leave the Republican Party; the Party left me,” he added, referencing the reasoning Reagan gave after switching from the Democratic to Republican Party in 1962. I changed my registration to "no party affiliation" after 40 years. I worked for Reagan & Bush 41 & 43. But today’s Rep … [Read more...] about Council on Foreign Relations president invokes former boss Reagan in quitting GOP

Just weeks after controversy raged over useless government food handouts for poor children, an opportunity has arisen: buy the tons of quality English cheese languishing in warehouses after the Westminster-imposed hospitality shutdown and post it directly to people in need. With the United Kingdom approaching the first anniversary of its coronavirus lockdown, the hospitality industry — the fleeting ‘eat out to help out’ days aside — remains in a state of stasis, if not outright collapse . This has meant a huge hit on the suppliers to those customer-facing businesses, particularly of perishable goods people love to enjoy while out, but may not necessarily think to buy for home. According to Britain’s state broadcaster, one such sector is speciality English cheese companies, which supplied victuals to restaurants and pubs for piquant postprandial nibbles, but whose customers vanished overnight with the government’s endless on-off lockdowns. Indeed, the BBC notes nearly … [Read more...] about Lane: Boris Johnson Could Call on Spirit of Reagan to Save Britain’s Cheese

close Video Power Player of the Week: George Shultz President Reagan's secretary of state looks back. Former Secretary of State George Shultz, an influential foreign policy figure during President Ronald Reagan’s administration, died Saturday at age 100 at his home in Stanford, California, the Hoover Institution said Sunday. Shultz, a Hoover Institution distinguished fellow, held three major Cabinet posts in Republican administrations during his long career of public service. Before spending more than six years as Reagan’s secretary of state, he served as labor secretary and treasury secretary under President Richard Nixon. As the nation’s chief diplomat in the 1980s, Shultz forged a course for peace in the Middle East and tried to enhance relations with the Soviet Union. In this July 13, 1982, file photo Secretary of State designate George Shultz, right, speaks with members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prior to the start of the … [Read more...] about George Shultz, former Reagan secretary of state who helped negotiate end of Cold War, dead at 100

Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, a titan of American academia, business and diplomacy who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve Cold War relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 100.   Schultz died Saturday at his home on the campus of Stanford University, where he was a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution, a think tank, and professor emeritus at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.   The Hoover Institution announced Schultz's death on Sunday. A cause of death was not provided.   A lifelong Republican, Shultz held three major Cabinet positions in GOP administrations during a lengthy career of public service.   He was labor secretary, treasury secretary and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Richard M. Nixon before spending more than six years as President Ronald Reagan's secretary of state.   Schultz was the longest serving secretary of state … [Read more...] about Reagan’s Longtime Secretary of State George Shultz Dies at 100

I was nervous when I first met George Shultz in 2009. I was working at the United States Institute of Peace headquarters. Secretary Shultz had helped fund the building, and my boss, Ambassador Richard Solomon, had worked for Shultz and wanted me to meet him at the groundbreaking ceremony.Aware that Shultz had been secretary of labor, secretary of the Treasury, secretary of State, first director of the Cabinet-level Office of Management and Budget, former president of the engineering colossus Bechtel and a scholar at Stanford, I thought he might be a bit intimidating.Far from cold or intimidating, Shultz was unassuming, kind, gracious and warm. Elegantly dressed in his trademark blue stripped suit, he seemed more grandfatherly than scholarly. It was hard to believe that so gentle a man had been steely and tough-minded as Ronald Reagan’s second secretary of State, replacing Al Haig in the summer of 1982 and had negotiated with China over Taiwan, established … [Read more...] about George P. Shultz: A man of bipartisanship