henry kissinger

     

Henry Alfre Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923) is a German-born American bureaucrat, diplomat, and 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration. Kissinger emerged unscathed from the Watergate scandal, and maintained his powerful position when Gerald Ford became President.

Trivia about henry kissinger

  • He was the last Secretary of State to serve in the post under 2 presidents
  • He famously remarked, "We are all the President's men", giving Woodward & Bernstein their title
  • Books by this alumnus include 1957's "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy" & 1994's "Diplomacy"
  • On October 26, 1972 this future U.S. Secretary of State declared that "Peace is at hand" in Vietnam
  • He was born in Germany, worked in a shaving brush factory, was U.S. Secretary of State & got an hon. knighthood in 1995
  • Secretary of State who said, "There cannot be a crisis next week; my schedule is already full"
  • In September 1973 he became the first foreign-born citizen to serve as secretary of state
  • Both Nixon & Ford employed his services as Secretary of State
  • "Years of Upheaval" is his personal account of foreign affairs during President Nixon's 2nd term
  • The cable film about this secretary of state "and Nixon" aired days before Oliver Stone's "Nixon" came out
  • He said in 1970 of invasion of Cambodia, "We are all the President's men"
  • In 1971 the New York Times quoted this future Secretary of State as saying, "Power is the great aphrodisiac"
  • Now retired, this foreign-born American influenced U.S. national policy for decades
  • This globetrotting U.S. statesman always came back for the baking of his mom, born Paula Stern
  • In 1957 this German-born man wrote of "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy"
  • When the 1973 peace prize was awarded to 2 men, Le Duc Tho declined but this man accepted

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