Turmoil & Triumph: The George Shultz Years

Name: Turmoil & Triumph: The George Shultz Years
Released: 2010-07-12T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Frank Collison, Rich Little, David De Vries

TV Show · Documentary

An overview of the US government in the early 1980s includes a behind-the-scenes view of the Reagan White House.

2010 · 56m

EPISODE 1

A Call to Service

George Shultz was dean of the business school at the University of Chicago and held other Cabinet posts before becoming Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan.
EPISODE 2

To Start the World Again

Nicaraguan Contras and Iran hostage situations; Corazon Aquino is elected president in the Philippines following her husband's assassination.
EPISODE 3

Swords Into Plowshares

Reagan and Gorbachev meet at a summit in Iceland and negotiate the end of the nuclear age; there is an argument when Shultz realises that Reagan does not want to give up his Star Wars, even if Gorbachev wants to disarm.