Turmoil & Triumph: The George Shultz Years - Digital HD

Through the memories of George Shultz, other cabinet members, journalists, and historians, viewers will relive the gripping tensions of these times; the fear of war in the Middle East, the shock of the barracks bombing that killed 220 Marines in Lebanon, the fall of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and the presidency of Corazon Aquino, and the delicate manipulations of summitry that helped determine the future of peace on the planet. The series will offer George Shultz’s remarkably vivid portraits of the major players on the national and world stage in the latter years of the twentieth century. Episode One – "A Call to Service” – Introduces the new Secretary through the details of his early life, his service as a U.S. Marine, his academic career as a free-market economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as Dean of the Business School at the University of Chicago, and his early cabinet posts as Secretary of Labor and Treasury under President Nixon. Episode Two – "To