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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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2026· 43 entries
“The trouble with Kennedy is he has too many opinions. A president has to know what he wants to do.”
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“The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer. But since the FOIA, I’m afraid to say things like that.”
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MS NOW: Henry Kissinger is 100 and still free, somehow
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Yahoo: Nancy Kissinger, chic wife and no-nonsense ‘conscience’ of Henry Kissinger
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IMDb: The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
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Effingham Radio: Nancy Kissinger, Wife of Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Dies at 92
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El-Balad.com: Nancy Kissinger Dies at 92, Ending Long Public Life — Henry Kissinger - El-Balad.com
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Philenews: On this day: Henry Kissinger was named U.S. Secretary of State in 1973
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vanguardia.com.mx: Fallece Nancy Kissinger a los 92 años, filántropa y esposa de Henry Kissinger
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CTV News: Philanthropist Nancy Kissinger, wife of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, dies at 92
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Cadena 3 Argentina: Falleció Nancy Kissinger, destacada filántropa y esposa del exsecretario de Estado Henry Kissinger
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AOL.com: Muere a los 92 años Nancy Kissinger, filántropa y esposa de Henry Kissinger
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India Today: Nancy Kissinger, Henry Kissinger's wife and philanthropist, dies at 92
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The Financial Express: Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger's wife, Nancy, dies at 92
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La Vanguardia: Muere Nancy Kissinger, viuda de Henry Kissinger y colaboradora de Nelson Rockefeller
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Public attention spiked: 27,602 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.1× the usual 3,424, with 2 article edits. Coverage that week: “Nancy Kissinger, Wife of Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Dies at 92” (Effingham Radio).
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New Age BD: Nancy Kissinger, widow of Henry Kissinger, dies
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El Confidencial: Fallece a los 92 años Nancy Maginnes, viuda y consejera en la sombra del secretario de Estado Henry Kissinger durante la Guerra Fría
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voz.us: Henry Kissinger's wife Nancy Kissinger dies at 92
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voz.us: Muere a los 92 años Nancy Kissinger, viuda de Henry Kissinger
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ProtoThema English: Nancy Kissinger, wife of late US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, dies at 92
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wng.org: Nancy Kissinger, philanthropist and Henry Kissinger’s widow, dead at 92
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FOX 7 Austin: Nancy Kissinger dies: Wife of Henry Kissinger was 92
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The Economic Times: Nancy Kissinger, widow of ex US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, dies at 92 in Connecticut
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El Debate: Muere a los 92 años Nancy Kissinger viuda del histórico exsecretario de Estado de EE.UU. Henry Kissinger
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Infobae: Murió Nancy Kissinger, filántropa y esposa del exsecretario de Estado Henry Kissinger, a los 92 años
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Minute Mirror: Nancy Kissinger, wife of Henry Kissinger, dies at 92
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“to reinforce with the [ Chilean ] military the serious consequences of an Allende presidency”
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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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“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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“s plan to end the agreement after it was signed would”
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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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“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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“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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2025· 2 entries
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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2024· 3 entries
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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2023· 30 entries
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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“Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.”
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“If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be anti-Semitic.”
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“at the highest level complexity masquerading as simplicity.”
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“Any people [Jews] who have been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong.”
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“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
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“Before the Freedom of Information Act, I used to say at meetings "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." … But since the Freedom of Information Act, I'm afraid to say things like that.”
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“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”
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“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”
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“Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed... History is a tale of efforts that failed, of aspirations that weren’t realized.... So, as a historian, one has to live with a sense of the inevitability of tragedy.”
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“It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that.”
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“ehemaliger US-Außenminister und Nationaler Sicherheitsberater”
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“[Ad un summit presso il Ministero degli Esteri alla fine dell'intervento di Aldo Moro] Chi parla in questo modo non può che essere un imbroglione e non può che rappresentare un popolo di imbroglioni.”
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“Como estadista, uno tiene que obrar con la suposición de que los problemas se tienen que resolver». [As a statesman, one has to act on the assumption that problems must to be solved].”
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“worse than the world wars that ruined European civilization”
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“There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.”
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2020· 7 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “Henry Kissinger said The Solution To Coronavirus Is The 'New World Order'” He Did Not!.
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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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“In conversation with Richard Nixon. Quoted in Gary J. Bass "The Terrible Cost of Presidential Racism" The New York Times (September 3, 2020)”
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2019· 3 entries
Africa Check rated the claim “Henry Kissinger said “Once the herd accepts mandatory forcible vaccination, it’s game over! They will accept anything – forcible blood or organ donation – for the ‘greater good’. We can genetically modify children and sterilise them – for the ‘greater good’.”” False.
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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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2017· 4 entries
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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Snopes.com rated the claim “Neil Gorsuch quoted Henry Kissinger in his Columbial University yearbook entry.” True.
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“Adapted from Niall Ferguson, THE SQUARE AND THE TOWER: Networks and Power, from Freemasons to Facebook, Penguin Press, 2017. As quoted in Niall Ferguson, The Secret to Henry Kissinger's success (January 20, 2018)”
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2016· 2 entries
“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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2014· 2 entries
“Quoted by Walter Isaacson, "Henry Kissinger Reminds Us Why Realism Matters", Time, 4 September 2014”
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“Omi, M.; Winant, H. (2014). Racial Formation in the United States. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-135-12751-0. Retrieved on November 2, 2018.”
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded Global Citizen Awards (2012).
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Ewald von Kleist Prize (2009).
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2008· 1 entry
“India has parallel objectives to the United States”
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (2007).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2006).
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2005· 2 entries
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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2003· 1 entry
“Ich sehe nicht ein, weshalb es nötig sein sollte, stillzuhalten und zuzusehen, wie ein Land durch die Verantwortungslosigkeit seines Volkes kommunistisch wird." - zitiert bei freitag.de 05.09.2003”
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2001· 2 entries
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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2000· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chancellor of the College of William & Mary (2000–2005).
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1998· 1 entry
“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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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Franz Josef Strauss Award (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1995).
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1994· 1 entry
“Präsident Clintons Gedanke von den Führungspartnern USA und Deutschland war nicht gerade sehr weise, denn dies ist eines jener Schlagworte, die nichts Gutes bringen. Tatsächlich treibt dieser Gedanke alle auf die Barrikaden, denn letztendlich wurden zwei Weltkriege geführt, um eben das, eine dominante Rolle Deutschlands, zu verhindern." - "Welt am Sonntag", 13. November 1994”
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Eric M. Warburg Award (1992).
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Charlemagne Prize (1987).
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1986· 1 entry
Won Medal of Liberty (1986).
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1985· 2 entries
“in «Gorbaciov? Consiglio cautela», La Stampa, 24 marzo 1985”
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“Gorbaciov, ancora tutto da vedere», La Stampa, 25 ottobre 1985”
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1982· 1 entry
In February 1982, at the age of 58, Henry Kissinger underwent coronary bypass surgery.
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Francis Boyer Award (1981).
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1980· 6 entries
Awarded National Book Award (1980).
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“Nello stato moderno gli apparati burocratici si sono talmente gonfiati, che si perde più tempo a gestirli che non a stabilirne gli scopi. Una burocrazia complessa [...] favorisce lo statu quo, comunque vi sia giunti perché, a meno di una evidente catastrofe, esso presenta il vantaggio della famigliarità, e non è mai possibile provare, che un altro sistema darebbe risultati migliori. (1980, p. 43)”
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“La storia non è una raccolta di ricette già collaudate. Essa insegna per analogie, non per massime. (1980. p. 55)”
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“È difficile che la fiducia di altre Nazioni in un Paese sia superiore a quella che il Paese ha di sé. (1980, p. 57)”
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“Diversamente dalle altre capitali europee, Roma non dette il la all'unità d'Italia; vi venne bensì annessa a un decennio di distanza dalla sua costituzione. Il governo italiano si trasferì nella città del papa; il papato restava l'istituzione chiave di Roma. (1980, pp. 93-94)”
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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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1978· 1 entry
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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1977· 2 entries
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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1976· 2 entries
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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1975· 4 entries
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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1974· 5 entries
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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“If we do not get a recognition of our interdependence, the Western civilization that we now have is almost certain to disintegrate. (October 1974)”
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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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“Press conference held on (February 13, 1974)”
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1973· 16 entries
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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“Variant: "Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac", quoted in The New York Times (October 28, 1973)”
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Career landmark: United States Secretary of State (1973–1977).
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Meir requested $850 million worth of American arms and equipment to replace its materiel losses
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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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“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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1972· 5 entries
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 Financial Times Person of the Year (1972).
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Awarded Time 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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1971· 8 entries
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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“I tell you, the Pakistanis are fine people, but they are primitive in their mental structure. [...] They just don't have the subtlety of the Indians. (August 10, 1971)”
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“The New York Times (January 19, 1971). See Michael C. Thomsett and Jean Freestone Thomsett War and Conflict Quotations: A Worldwide Dictionary of Pronouncements from Military Leaders, Politicians, Philosophers, Writers and Others Jefferson, NC & London: McFarland, 2008.”
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“Transcript of telephone conversation with the poet and antiwar activist Allen Ginsberg from the National Security Archive (April 23, 1971)”
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“[Referring to the people of India] They are superb flatterers, Mr. President. They are masters at flattery. They are masters at subtle flattery. That’s how they survived 600 years. They suck up — their great skill is to suck up to people in key positions. (June 17, 1971)”
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1970· 3 entries
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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“Meeting of the "40 Committee" on covert action in Chile (June 27, 1970) quoted in The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence (1974); the quotation was censored prior to publication due to legal action by the government. See The New York Times (September 11, 1974) "Censored Matter in Book About C.I.A. Said to Have Related Chile Activities; Damage Feared" by Seymour Hersh”
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1969· 5 entries
Nixon announced the bombing would start the next day
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Career landmark: United States National Security Advisor (1969–1975).
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“The Vietnam Negotiations", Foreign Affairs, Vol. 48, No. 2 (January 1969), p. 214; also quoted as "A conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerilla army wins if he does not lose.”
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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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And the driving force behind the rapprochement with China was Nixon
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1968· 1 entry
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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1967· 3 entries
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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“Et Caesar, Et Nullus", Reporter (June 1, 1967), 51f.”
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Saying that he found him more "thoughtful" than he expected
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1965· 2 entries
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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1964· 1 entry
They had two children, Elizabeth and David, and divorced in 1964.
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1962· 1 entry
“LOC, Position Papers (April 11, 1962)”
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1961· 1 entry
“LOC, G-13, HAK to Michael Howard (July 31, 1961).”
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1959· 1 entry
“The Policymaker and the Intellectual, Reporter (March 5, 1959), 30, 33.”
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1958· 2 entries
“International Security: The Military Aspect”
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Also co-founded the Center for International Affairs with Robert R
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1957· 4 entries
“Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy”
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Published “Reaction Kinetics in Differential Thermal Analysis” in Analytical Chemistry — cited 12,442 times.
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As A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace 1812–1822
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Published “Reaction Kinetics in Differential Thermal Analysis” in Analytical Chemistry — cited 12,420 times.
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1955· 1 entry
Was a consultant to the National Security Council's Operations Coordinating Board
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1954· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University, Doctor of Philosophy (1952–1954).
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1952· 2 entries
Studied at Harvard University, Master of Arts (1950–1952).
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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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1950· 2 entries
Where he lived in Adams House and studied under William Yandell Elliott
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Studied at Harvard University, Bachelor of Arts (1947–1950).
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1946· 1 entry
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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1945· 2 entries
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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1943· 2 entries
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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1940· 1 entry
Studied at George Washington Educational Campus (1938–1940).
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1938· 2 entries
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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1933· 1 entry
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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1925· 1 entry
Kissinger married Anneliese "Ann" Fleischer (born November 6, 1925, in Fürth, Germany) on February 6, 1949.
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-05-27.
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1817· 1 entry
Taking it from the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen
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1815· 1 entry
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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1812· 2 entries
“A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-22 (1957), p. 2”
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“A World Restored: Metternich, Castlereagh and the Problems of Peace, 1812-22 (1957), p. 206”
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