Former Secretary of State and Nixon’s chief advisor Henry Kissinger turns 100

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by Rich Calder

May 27, 2023 | 4:49 p.m

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger turned 100 on Saturday and shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon.

David wrote Thursday in the Gazette that Kissinger will celebrate his centenary in office this week with visits to New York, London, his hometown of Fürth, Germany, and his son. Washington Post.

His father, a 1973 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, said the younger Kissinger, “may have an inevitable air to anyone familiar with his strength of character and love of historical symbolism.” Not only did he outlive most of his peers, prominent critics, and students, but he also remained tirelessly active throughout his nineties. “.

“My father’s longevity is particularly miraculous when one considers the healthy regimen he followed throughout his adult life, which included a diet heavy on sausage and Wiener schnitzel, a career of relentless decision-making, and a love of sports as a purely spectator, not a participant.”

In recent years, the elder Kissinger—the only surviving member of Nixon’s cabinet—continued to influence Washington’s power brokers.

The elder statesman has advised Republican and Democratic presidents, including the White House during the Trump administration, while maintaining an international advisory business. A Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, Kissinger never lost his thick German accent.

Kissinger said recently, this month, that the war in Ukraine had reached a turning point with China’s entry into negotiations and called for peace through negotiations to end the conflict. He told CBS News that he expects the negotiations to reach a climax “by the end of the year.”

Nevertheless, Kissinger is still best known for his major role in American foreign affairs during the 1960s and 1970s—including negotiations to help smooth relations with China and eventual attempts to withdraw the United States from Vietnam—but not before he became closely associated with several nations. The most disputed business of the conflict.

Kissinger, along with Nixon, endured much criticism from American allies when North Vietnamese communist forces captured Saigon in 1975 as the remaining American personnel fled from what is now Ho Chi Minh City.

He was also accused of orchestrating the spillover of the conflict into Laos and Cambodia, enabling the rise of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that killed an estimated two million Cambodians.

Kissinger remained one of Nixon’s most trusted advisors during the 37th president’s administration from 1969 to 1974, when the Watergate scandal forced Nixon from office.

President Gerald Ford awarded Kissinger, his national security adviser, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, saying he had “used America’s great power with wisdom and compassion in the service of peace.”

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