Henry Kissinger, towering American diplomat under Presidents Nixon and Ford, dies at 100
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He exerted uncommon influence on global affairs under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, earning both harsh criticism and the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died today, his consulting firm said. He was 100.
He exerted uncommon influence on global affairs under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, earning both harsh criticism and the Nobel Peace Prize.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself from Vietnam and broke down barriers with China, died Wednesday, his consulting firm said. He was 100.
Henry Kissinger, the widely respected scholar and statesman who achieved the American Dream after fleeing Nazi Germany as a teenager in 1938, died Wednesday at the age of 100.
Henry Kissinger, the former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State during the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, has died at the age of 100.
Henry Kissinger, who died Wednesday at age 100, was an American original. And like many who merit that description, he was not born in the United States.
The former secretary of State, the architect of U.S. foreign policy at the apex of the Cold War and a towering force in world affairs, dies at 100 at his Connecticut home.
Henry Kissinger, a brilliant master of the art of statecraft and one of the most polarizing figures of the Vietnam War era, died Wednesday at his home in Connecticut. He was 100.
Henry Kissinger was the Holocaust survivor and Harvard professor who became the archetypal U.S. diplomat, master political manipulator and pop culture icon.
Kissinger exerted uncommon influence on global affairs under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, earning both vilification and the Nobel Peace Prize.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who died Wednesday at age 100, exerted far-reaching influence on global affairs under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1969 and 1977, earning both vilification and the Nobel Peace Prize.
Kissinger's guiding foreign policy principle was that strategic national interests take priority over more idealistic aims, like the promotion of human rights and democracy.
Henry Kissinger, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former US secretary of state, has died. The controversial politician wasn't only the United States' most famous top diplomat, he was also the only one born in Germany.
Henry Kissinger — a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who was the public face of U.S. diplomacy under two U.S. presidents, defused tensions with the Soviet Union, opened up China and negotiated an end to the Vietnam War — died Wednesday evening. He was 100.
By Paul LeBlanc and Kristin Wilson, CNN (CNN) — Henry Kissinger, a former US secretary of state and national security adviser who escaped Nazi Germany in his youth to become one of the most influential and controversial foreign policy figures in American history, has died. He was 100.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the diplomat with the thick glasses and gravelly voice who dominated foreign policy as the United States extricated itself
