--- title: Henry Kissinger and George Shultz Will Not Endorse in 2016 description: Foreign policy gurus Henry Kissinger and George Shultz decided not to endorse in the 2016 election. canonical: https://time.com/4477352/henry-kissinger-george-shultz-endorsement/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-02T12:10:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T03:04:51.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Henry Kissinger and George Shultz Will Not Endorse in 2016 og:description: After a report came out that they might back Clinton. og:url: https://time.com/4477352/henry-kissinger-george-shultz-endorsement/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Henry Kissinger and George Shultz Will Not Endorse in 2016 twitter:description: After a report came out that they might back Clinton. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Henry Kissinger and George Shultz Will Not Endorse in 2016 Election > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters.  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 3:04 AM UTCPublished: Sep 2, 2016 12:10 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 3:04 AM UTCPublished: Sep 2, 2016 12:10 PM UTC 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) 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"],"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"}}]}] ```