“to reinforce with the [ Chilean ] military the serious consequences of an Allende presidency”
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Henry Kissinger
Henry Alfred Kissinger was an American diplomat, political scientist, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 7th national security advisor from 1969 to 1975 and as the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977, serving under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
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Born 27 May 1923 · Died 29 November 2023 · Q66107
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“In contemporary America, power increasingly gravitates to those with an almost obsessive desire to win it.”
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“I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger.”
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“s plan to end the agreement after it was signed would”
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“The west speaks Ukrainian; the east speaks mostly Russian. Any attempt by one wing of Ukraine to dominate the other—as has been the pattern—would lead eventually to civil war or break up.”
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“Friends of China should not use the Olympics to pressure China now.”
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“s official press agency Xinhua:”
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“thought—wrongly incidentally—that she would be extremely confrontational ... I think he tried to weaken the incoming president [Clinton]”
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“s admiration for him, but Smith stated that he thought Kissinger was asking him to sign Rhodesia”
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“The Turkish tactics are right – grab what they want and then negotiate on the basis of possession”
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“would not have dealt with Pol Pot for any purpose whatsoever.”
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“too soft and not sophisticated”
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“I had never seen people degraded to the level that people were in Ahlem. They barely looked human. They were skeletons.”
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Public attention spiked: 11,743 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.4× the usual 3,433, with 0 article edits.
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Yahoo: Henry Kissinger was brilliant and complicated. Why deny that?
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Snopes rated the claim “Facebook posts accurately reproduce comments former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger made about President Donald Trump.” Mixture.
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New York Post: How Henry Kissinger foresaw the power and potential of AI
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Snopes rated the claim “Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once said, “Who controls the food supply controls the people.”” Mixture.
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The Guardian: Letter: Henry Kissinger obituary
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The Guardian: Henry Kissinger’s role in Bengali massacre | Letter
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In These Times: Henry Kissinger Died a Better Death Than He Deserved
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Newsweek: Henry Kissinger’s Coming Of Age | Opinion
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New York Post: Remembering my late friend former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
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CBS News: Ted Koppel on the complicated legacy of Henry Kissinger
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The Guardian: The Kissinger years: flawed legacy of the man behind US cold war policy
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Snopes rated the claim “A story in the Washington Post published on Nov. 29, 2023, accurately revealed that Henry Kissinger had turned down a board seat at the tech company OpenAI days before he died.” Fake.
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The Guardian: ‘Aura of credibility’: why Democrats and elites revere Kissinger despite war crimes allegations
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The Guardian: Henry Kissinger and the man who wanted to confront him - podcast
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The Guardian: Atrocities and dirty jokes: Americans learn of Kissinger’s death through raunchy text chain
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The National Interest: Mike Pompeo: What Made Henry Kissinger Truly Special
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The Guardian: Praise and criticism as world reacts to death of Henry Kissinger
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The Guardian: Henry Kissinger: tributes to ‘old friend’ and ‘giant of history’ mix with criticism of controversial legacy – as it happened
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Snopes rated the claim “Author and chef Anthony Bourdain called former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger a “treacherous, prevaricating, murderous scumbag” for his role in ordering bombings in Cambodia and the ensuing violence. Bourdain also wrote, “You will never understand why [Kissinger] is not sitting in the do…” Correct Attribution.
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Died 2023-11-29.
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“worse than the world wars that ruined European civilization”
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“Any people [Jews] who have been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong.”
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“There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”
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“If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be anti-Semitic.”
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“Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.”
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“at the highest level complexity masquerading as simplicity.”
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Henry Kissinger urged mass vaccination in 2009 speech” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A Facebook post accurately reproduces Henry Kissinger's thoughts on Donald Trump's presidency.” Mostly False.
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Reported claimRated Dr Kissinger never said this. The meeting never happened. The Council on Eugenics does not exist. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “Henry Kissinger told the WHO “Council on Eugenics” that vaccines could be used to control the human population” Dr Kissinger never said this. The meeting never happened. The Council on Eugenics does not exist..
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Henry Kissinger made these pro-Trump remarks” False.
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“the principal adviser to all humanity”
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20192 items
FactCheck.org rated the claim “A Facebook post attributes several quotes about President Donald Trump to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.” Some Right, Some Wrong.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Henry Kissinger said “Trump is the one true leader in world affairs and he is forcing policy changes that put America first!”” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Pope Francis kissing the hand of David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, or one of many other people targeted by conspiracy theorists as being part of a vast global conspiracy.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Neil Gorsuch quoted Henry Kissinger in his Columbial University yearbook entry.” True.
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20162 items
“potential domination of the region by an Iran that is both imperial and jihadist”
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“If Ukraine is considered an outpost, then the situation is that its eastern border is the NATO strategic line, and NATO will be within 200 miles (320 km) of Volgograd. That will never be accepted by Russia. On the other hand, if the Russian western line is at the border of Poland, Europe will be permanently disquieted. The Strategic objective should have been to see whether one can build Ukraine as a bridge between East and West, and whether one can do it as a kind of a joint effort.”
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Awarded Global Citizen Awards (2012).
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Awarded Ewald von Kleist Prize (2009).
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“India has parallel objectives to the United States”
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Awarded Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (2007).
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Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2006).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Peking University (2005).
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Kissinger's son David served as an executive with NBC Universal Television Studio before becoming head of Conaco, Conan O'Brien's production company, in 2005.
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After recent declassification of documents, relatives and survivors of General René Schneider filed civil proceedings against Kissinger, in federal court in Washington, D
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This prize was the most controversial to date
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Career landmark: Chancellor of the College of William & Mary (2000–2005).
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“some countries, the Chinese in particular supported Pol Pot as a counterweight to the Vietnamese supported people and We at least tolerated it.”
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Awarded Franz Josef Strauss Award (1996).
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Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1995).
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Awarded Eric M. Warburg Award (1992).
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Awarded Charlemagne Prize (1987).
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Won Medal of Liberty (1986).
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In February 1982, at the age of 58, Henry Kissinger underwent coronary bypass surgery.
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Awarded Francis Boyer Award (1981).
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Awarded National Book Award (1980).
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That "has managed the extraordinary feat of having, at one and the same time, the worst relations with our allies, the worst relations with our adversaries, and the most serious upheavals in the developing world since th
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Was secretly involved in thwarting efforts by the Carter administration to indict three Chilean intelligence agents for masterminding the 1976 assassination of Orlando Letelier
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Gerald Ford (1977).
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Was offered an endowed chair at Columbia University, which was met with student opposition
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Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (1976).
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With a process called the National Reorganization Process by the military, with which they consolidated power, launching brutal reprisals and "disappearances" against political opponents
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Awarded Wateler Peace Prize (1975).
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Kissinger testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee, urging Congress to increase the military aid budget to South Vietnam by another $700 million to save the ARVN as the PAVN was rapidly advancing on Saigon, w
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“You should tell the Cambodians that we will be friends with them. They are murderous thugs but we won”
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Kissinger attempted to return the award
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Did the King end the oil embargo, after Sadat reported to him that the United States was being more "even handed" and after Kissinger had promised to sell Saudi Arabia weapons that it had previously denied under the grou
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Kissinger directed the much-debated National Security Study Memorandum 200
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Kissinger worried that the new government's hasty decolonization plan might benefit radical factions such as the MPLA in Angola
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for jointly having negotiated a cease fire in Vietnam in 1973.
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For their work in negotiating the ceasefires contained in the Paris Peace Accords on "Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam", signed the previous January
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Kissinger flew to Riyadh to meet King Faisal and to ask him to end the oil embargo in exchange for promising to be "even handed" in the Arab-Israeli dispute
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By placing a total embargo on oil shipments to the United States, to be joined by all of the other oil-producing Arab states except Iraq and Libya
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At 6:15 am, assistant secretary for Near Eastern affairs Joseph Sisco, informed Kissinger that Egypt and Syria were about to go to war with Israel
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Allende died during an army attack on the presidential palace that was an element of a military coup launched by Army Commander-in-Chief Augusto Pinochet, who then became the head of the military junta which replaced All
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1973).
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Kissinger stated, "The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy, and if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern
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Kissinger and Thọ signed a peace agreement that called for the complete withdrawal of all U
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Kissinger and Thọ met again in Paris and the next day reached an agreement, which in main points was essentially the same as the one Nixon had rejected in October with only cosmetic concessions to the Americans
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Meir requested $850 million worth of American arms and equipment to replace its materiel losses
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“The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy, and if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern.”
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1973–1977).
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Kissinger did not feel that pressing the Soviet Union concerning the plight of Jews being persecuted there was in the interest of U
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Called for "new dialogue" between the United States and Latin America, then in 1974, Kissinger met Panama military leader Omar Torrijos and an agreement on eight operating principles for an eventual handover of the Panam
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Kissinger agreed to an interview with Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci
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Kissinger met Thọ again in Paris, and for first time, he seemed willing to compromise, saying that political and military terms of an armistice could be treated separately and hinted that his government was no longer wil
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Awarded Time Person of the Year (1972).
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Awarded Financial Times Person of the Year (1972).
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“I also think that Thieu is right, that our terms will eventually destroy him.”
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After two years of skirmishes along the border, President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr broke off diplomatic relations with Iran
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Nixon and Kissinger discussed the possibility of supporting a coup in Bolivia, and later in July, the 40 Committee approved covert funding towards Torres's opposition
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The administration of President Nixon successfully renewed the lease of the American military base in the Azores, despite condemnation from the Congressional Black Caucus and some members of the Senate
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Talks with the People's Republic of China premier Zhou Enlai
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Kissinger parroted to Nixon the United States Department of Defense's position that the country should maintain control over the Panama Canal, which was a reversal of the commitment by the Lyndon Johnson administration
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Causing serious concern in Washington, D
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Nixon announced the bombing would start the next day
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Kissinger favored a negotiating strategy under which the United States and North Vietnam would sign an armistice and agreed to pull their troops out of South Vietnam while the South Vietnamese government and the Viet Con
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Career landmark: United States National Security Advisor (1969–1975).
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And the driving force behind the rapprochement with China was Nixon
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Kissinger again served as the foreign policy adviser to Rockefeller and in July 1968 called Nixon "the most dangerous of all the men running to have as president"
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19672 items
Served as an intermediary for negotiations between the United States and North Vietnam, with Kissinger providing the American position, while two Frenchmen provided the North Vietnamese position
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Saying that he found him more "thoughtful" than he expected
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1965).
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And twice in 1966, where Kissinger realized that the United States "knew neither how to win or how to conclude" the Vietnam War
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They had two children, Elizabeth and David, and divorced in 1964.
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“International Security: The Military Aspect”
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Also co-founded the Center for International Affairs with Robert R
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Published “Reaction Kinetics in Differential Thermal Analysis” in Analytical Chemistry — cited 12,420 times.
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“Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy”
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As A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812–1822
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Was a consultant to the National Security Council's Operations Coordinating Board
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Studied at Harvard University, Doctor of Philosophy (1952–1954).
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While still a graduate student at Harvard, he served as a consultant to the director of the Psychological Strategy Board, and founded a magazine, Confluence
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Studied at Harvard University, Master of Arts (1950–1952).
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Studied at Harvard University, Bachelor of Arts (1947–1950).
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Where he lived in Adams House and studied under William Yandell Elliott
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Kissinger was reassigned to teach at the European Command Intelligence School at Camp King and, as a civilian employee following his separation from the army, continued to serve in this role
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Won Bronze Star Medal (1945).
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Participated in the liberation of the Hannover-Ahlem concentration camp, a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp
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While stationed in South Carolina, he became a naturalized U
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Studied at City College of New York (1941–1943).
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Studied at George Washington Educational Campus (1938–1940).
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When Kissinger was 15 years old, he and his family fled Germany to avoid further Nazi persecution
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As a Jewish refugee fleeing Nazi persecution
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And learning of Adolf Hitler's election as Chancellor of Germany, which proved to be a profound turning point for the Kissinger family
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Kissinger married Anneliese "Ann" Fleischer (born November 6, 1925, in Fürth, Germany) on February 6, 1949.
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Born 1923-05-27.
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190018 items
Awarded Order of Saint Michael and Saint George.
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Awarded Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.
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Awarded Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class.
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
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Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art.
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Awarded Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class.
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Awarded Knights of Rizal.
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Awarded Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
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Won Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
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Won Golden Plate Award.
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Awarded Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Awarded Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.
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Awarded Bavarian Order of Merit.
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Awarded honorary doctor of Waseda University.
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Won Presidential Medal of Distinction.
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Career landmark: Participated in World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2013 (tournament / event).
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Career landmark: Participated in World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2022 (tournament / event).
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Taking it from the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen
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The leaders of Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia agreed to co-operate in the Concert of Europe to preserve the peace after Austria, Prussia, and Russia participated in a series of three Partitions of Poland,
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