Graduated Princeton, Cum Laude, 1942

World War II served in the Marine Corps
Earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advised Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy on fiscal and labor matters (1955-62)
Joined faculty of the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business in 1957, serving as its dean from 1962 to 1969
Named Secretary of State by President Ronald Reagan (June 1982)
Hoover Institute, Stanford University-Distinguished Fellow (1989-present)