Former Secretary of State and president of Bechtel, George P. Shultz, died Feb. 6 in California, at age 100. While he served as president of Bechtel from 1975 to 1982, the company completed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, the Washington Metro subway, the Palo Alto nuclear power plant in Arizona, the cleanup of Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, and numerous projects in Saudi Arabia.
“Shultz joined Bechtel in 1974 at age 53 as executive vice president. By that time, he had served as senior economist to President Eisenhower and as secretary of labor and secretary of the treasury under President Nixon.