Tag: Richard Nixon

• Monday, August 16th 2021 - 19:48 UTC

  How a secret meeting in August 1971 transformed the global economy

  

  By Atish Rex Ghosh (*) - History is a confluence of underlying forces and specific triggering events. Think of the start of World War I: economic, imperial, and nationalistic tensions that had simmered for years exploded into open conflict when Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s motorcade took a wrong turn, putting him in the path of an assassin’s bullet.

• Monday, February 8th 2021 - 08:37 UTC

  Reagan's secretary of State, George Shultz dies at age of 100. He served in four different cabinet positions

  

  President Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State, George Shultz, a resourceful strategist who helped dismantle the Cold War has died at the age of 100. An economics professor who saw himself more as a data-driven expert than an ideologue, Shultz had the rare distinction of serving in four different cabinet positions - including Treasury secretary with Richard Nixon.

• Tuesday, March 22nd 2011 - 08:23 UTC

  US ready to help Chile solve human rights crimes but no apology for 1973 events

  

  In what was the most controversial issue of the visit, President Obama said he's ready to help Chile solve human rights crimes committed during the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, but avoided agreeing Monday to a US apology for meddling in the country's affairs.