Close friends spanning George P. Shultz’s exceptional career of public service celebrated the Hoover distinguished fellow and sixtieth US secretary of state for his centenary this week. Shultz, who turns one hundred years old on Sunday, December 13, was paid tribute by senior officials he worked with in the Nixon and Reagan administrations, other policymakers he advised when he was outside of government, as well as his colleagues at the Hoover Institution and Stanford University. All recalled memories of Shultz as an honorable public servant and extraordinary leader who lived up to his favorite motto: “trust is the coin of the realm.”