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Henry Alfred Kissinger [a] (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 56th United States secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 and the 7th national security advisor from 1969 to 1975, serving under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
Henry Kissinger (left) and Madeleine Albright (right) are the highest-ranking foreign-born citizens to lead the Federal Executive Department; each held the post of Secretary of State. As of 2023, [update] there have been 23 members appointed to the Cabinet of the United States who had been born outside the present-day United States .
Henry Kissinger, the secretary of state for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford who shaped U.S. foreign policy for decades, has died. He was 100. Kissinger died Wednesday at his home in ...
Nixon later appointed him as U.S. Secretary of State, and Kissinger served in the position from Sept. 23, 1973 to Jan. 20, 1977. He was the first person ever to serve in both positions.
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 ...
The Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was opposed to Kissinger's plan. [5] However, W. Averell Harriman of the "peace shop" was interested and got President Johnson to approve the approach, which was code-named Operation Pennsylvania. [ 5 ]
Henry Kissinger, the toweringly influential former secretary of state who earned a reputation as a sagacious diplomat but drew international condemnation and accusations of war crimes for his key ...
Henry Kissinger, the most powerful U.S. diplomat of the Cold War era, who helped Washington open up to China, forge arms control deals with the Soviet Union and end the Vietnam War, but who was ...