Ronald Reagan’s long-time secretary of state George Shultz dies aged 100

George Shultz held three major Cabinet posts in Republican administrations during a long career of public service.

George Shultz, centre, with Ronald Reagan and George Bush (AP)

President Ronald Reagan’s long-time US secretary of state, George P Shultz, who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, has died. He was 100.

Mr Shultz died at his home on the campus of Stanford University, according to the Hoover Institution, a think tank where he was a distinguished fellow.