Issues on My Mind Strategies for the Future

Former Nixon and Reagan cabinet member George Shultz offers his views on how to govern more effectively, get our economy back on track, take advantage of new opportunities in the energy field, combat the use of addictive drugs, apply a strategic overview to diplomacy, and identify necessary steps to achieve a world without nuclear weapons. If we can successfully handle each of these issues, Shultz explains, we in the United States and people in the rest of the world will have the prospect of a better future.

George P. Shultz (1920–2021), the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover Institution, had a distinguished career in government, in academia, and in business. Henry A. Kissinger was national security adviser and the secretary of state under presidents Nixon and Ford and is currently chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm.