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George Shultz’ early life, his early cabinet posts and his diplomatic challenges as he’s sworn in as secretary of state.
The first episode introduces George Shultz through the details of
his early life: his service as a U.S. Marine, his academic career
as a free-market economist at MIT and as dean of the business
school at the University of Chicago and his early cabinet posts as
secretary of labor and secretary of the treasury under President
Nixon. As he's sworn in as secretary of state under President
Reagan, the war in Lebanon presents a dangerous diplomatic
challenge. A second crisis boils over when it's discovered that the
CIA is secretly aiding Nicaraguan Contra rebels. Through it all,
Shultz clings to one goal: to bring Ronald Reagan and the Soviet
leaders together for the first time.