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Henry Alfred Kissinger [a] (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger; May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and the 7th national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, serving in the presidential administrations of both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
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In a 1989 interview, Koppel commented, "Henry Kissinger is, plain and simply, the best secretary of state we have had in 20, maybe 30 years – certainly one of the two or three great secretaries of state of our century," then added, "I’m proud to be a friend of Henry Kissinger. He is an extraordinary man.
In his interview with Karnow, Kissinger maintained he felt torn about where he stood and blamed Nixon for his failure to find "the language of respect and compassion that might have created a bridge at least to the more reasonable elements of the antiwar movement". [45]
In his 2001 book The Trial of Henry Kissinger, legendary British author Christopher Hitchens methodically laid out the case for the grand old US statesman to be prosecuted for conspiracy to commit ...
Henry Kissinger’s influence in Latin America is a controversial aspect of his legacy following his death at 100, and his role in the Vietnam War helped spark the Chicano movement.
Until the embittered end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few of a distrusting Richard Nixon. The German-born diplomat who got the U.S. out of Vietnam after bloody, costly years of delay ...
The Kissinger Lecture on Foreign Policy and International Relations is an annual lecture given by an invited speaker at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. It was established in 2001 to honor Henry Kissinger, the former United States Secretary of State, along with the annual Kissinger Scholar as holder of the Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations ...