--- description: Foreign policy gurus Henry Kissinger and George Shultz decided not to endorse in the 2016 election. title: Henry Kissinger and George Shultz Will Not Endorse in 2016 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Henry Kissinger and George Shultz Will Not Endorse in 2016 Election  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 3:04 AM CUTPublished: Sep 2, 2016 12:10 PM CUT  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Updated: Dec 13, 2023 3:04 AM CUTPublished: Sep 2, 2016 12:10 PM CUT Foreign policy gurus Henry Kissinger and George Shultz have announced they will not endorse a presidential candidate, after reports circulated Friday that they were considering a joint endorsement of Hillary Clinton. “We are not making any endorsement in the current presidential election,” Kissinger and Shultz said in a joint statement provided to TIME. “We are dedicated to fostering a bipartisan foreign policy, and we will devote ourselves to this effort now and after the election.” Kissinger, who served as Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, [told TIME](http://time.com/4351170/donald-trump-henry-kissinger-foreign-policy/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined") in May that he disagrees with Trump’s foreign policy ideas. “On foreign policy, you identify many key problems,” he said of Trump. “I do not generally agree with the solutions. One-shot outcomes are probably not possible.” Clinton has previously touted praise from Kissinger. “I was very flattered when Henry Kissinger said I ran the State Department better than anybody had run it in a long time,” she said at a Democratic debate in February. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4477352/henry-kissinger-george-shultz-endorsement/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4477352/henry-kissinger-george-shultz-endorsement/"},"headline":"Henry Kissinger and George Shultz Will Not Endorse in 2016 Election","datePublished":"2016-09-02T12:10:29.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T03:04:51.000Z","description":"The two Republican former Secretaries of State disapprove of Donald Trump","url":"https://time.com/4477352/henry-kissinger-george-shultz-endorsement/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4477352/henry-kissinger-george-shultz-endorsement/","name":"Henry Kissinger and George Shultz Will Not Endorse in 2016 Election"}}]}] ```