Historian David Rothkopf has looked at the personalities of Nixon and Kissinger, saying: They were a fascinating pair. Israel time) that war was imminent, and his urgent calls to the Soviets and Egyptians were ineffective. [72], In the fall of 1972, both Kissinger and Nixon were frustrated with Thiu's refusal to accept any sort of peace deal calling for withdrawal of American forces. In 2019, Kissinger wrote about the increasing tendency to give control of nuclear weapons to computers operating with artificial intelligence (AI) that: "Adversaries' ignorance of AI-developed configurations will become a strategic advantage". He said he also worries that potentially great leaders wont ever make it to the national stage because of todays toxic environment, and if they do, they will be halted from ever forming a consensus on anything because of our divided environment. Ann Fleisher ( 1949 - 1964, ly d) Nancy Maginnes (t 1974) Nhim v. Kissinger said he didn't approve of this due to the genocide and said he "would not have dealt with Pol Pot for any purpose whatsoever." [200] Kissinger previously said that a potential war between China and the United States would be "worse than the world wars that ruined European civilization". The couple was blessed with two kids named David Kissinger and Elizabeth Kissinger. [18], Kissinger spent his high school years in the Washington Heights section of Upper Manhattan as part of the German Jewish immigrant community that resided there at the time. There were two children from this marriage, Elizabeth and David. Henry is always friendly, particularly with women. Kissinger married philanthropist Nancy Maginnes in 1974. And he pays rapt attention to every question as though he had nothing in the world more pressing to consider. Kissinger and Ann divorced in 1964. American politician and diplomat (born 1923), "Kissinger" redirects here. Henry Kissinger is a former American Secretary of State who played a key role in ending the Vietnam War. [206] In a question he posed to himself for illustration regarding re-conceiving policy regarding Ukraine, Kissinger stated: "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 (320km) of Volgograd. All he needs is to be alone, to show others that he rides into the town and does everything by himself. He is worldly, humorous, sophisticated and a cavalier with women.". After the involvement of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces in the independence struggles in Angola and Mozambique, Kissinger said that unless Cuba withdrew its forces relations would not be normalized. [192] A few months before the Games opened, as controversy over China's human rights record was intensifying due to criticism by Amnesty International and other groups of the widespread use of the death penalty and other issues, Kissinger told the PRC's official press agency Xinhua: "I think one should separate Olympics as a sporting event from whatever political disagreements people may have had with China. In December 1975, Suharto discussed invasion plans during a meeting with Kissinger and President Ford in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. Kissinger, along with South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster, pressured Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith to hasten the transition to black majority rule in Rhodesia. Do you believe everything you hear on TV?, Henry says, I like women who are intense, intelligent and warm. [63] Though Kissinger did not regard South Vietnam as important in its own right, he believed it was necessary to support South Vietnam to maintain the United States as a global power, believing that none of America's allies would trust the United States if South Vietnam were abandoned too quickly.[64]. New York: Penguin Press, 2015. [11] The surname Kissinger was adopted in 1817 by his great-great-grandfather Meyer Lb, after the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen. By the time Henry escaped to the United States with his parents he had become a withdrawn, suspicious young man. "[187] Kissinger also frequently met with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who he warned that Coalition Provisional Authority Director L. Paul Bremer was "a control freak". [156], In February 1976, Kissinger considered launching air strikes against ports and military installations in Cuba, as well as deploying U.S. Marine Corps battalions based at the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, in retaliation for Cuban President Fidel Castro's decision in late 1975 to send troops to newly independent Angola to help the MPLA in its fight against UNITA and South Africa during the start of the Angolan Civil War. I don't knowI wasn't present at the interview. [184], In 2006, it was reported in the book State of Denial by Bob Woodward that Kissinger met regularly with President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to offer advice on the Iraq War. Graduates Harvard in 1950; writes 388 page undergraduate thesis, "The Meaning of History." (Kissinger rule follows) his mentor is William Yandell Elliott, Vanderbilt class 1917 [238] In February 1982, at the age of 58, Henry Kissinger underwent coronary bypass surgery. His younger brother Walter, who died last year, lived to the age of 96. He is a man to whom semantics are vitally important. Ann Fleischer was the wife of Henry Kissinger. [40] As National Security Advisor in 1974, Kissinger directed the much-debated National Security Study Memorandum 200. "Friends of China should not use the Olympics to pressure China now." There has never been a romance, Jill told WWD. The United States continued to recognize and maintain relationships with non-left-wing governments, democratic and authoritarian alike. Get all the top news stories and alerts straight to your inbox. Hillary Clinton had cultivated a close relationship with Kissinger, describing him as a "friend" and a source of "counsel". Kissinger was criticised for not disclosing his role in the venture when called upon by ABC's Peter Jennings to comment the morning after the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre. Whatever Henry considers irrelevant never reaches the President. He even has a new book out this month,Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy, profiling six leaders who helped shape the turbulent post-WWII era. [122] Kissinger described the Baathist regime in Iraq as a potential threat to the United States and believed that building up Iran and supporting the peshmerga was the best counterweight. In 1973, Kissinger received the U.S. Se divorciaron en 1964. We say, Guten Morgen, Herr Kissinger, every morning when we walk our poodle, but he never replies. Henry says simply, Im probably preoccupied.. [171], Kissinger served as the 22nd Chancellor of the College of William and Mary from 2000 to 2005. [193] During the Games, he participated with Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, film star Jackie Chan, and former British PM Tony Blair at a Peking University forum on the qualities that make a champion. Henry then married Nancy Maginnes in 1974. In 1982, with the help of a loan from the international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company,[43] Kissinger founded a consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, and is a partner in affiliate Kissinger McLarty Associates with Mack McLarty, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton. [82] After the Fall of Saigon in 1975, Kissinger attempted to return the award. [16][15] As a result of the Nazis' anti-Semitic laws Kissinger was unable to gain admittance to the Gymnasium, while his father was dismissed from his teaching job. When Henry went to Harvard his intellectual enlightenment began, but the social awakening did not. [14], In 1938, when Kissinger was 15 years old, he and his family fled Germany as a result of Nazi persecution. . On March 30, 1974, he married Nancy Maginnes. Upon arriving to the United States, he excelled academically and graduated from Harvard College in 1950, where he studied under William Yandell Elliott. Kissinger had a worldview and a facility for adjusting it to meet the times, Nixon had pragmatism and a strategic vision that provided the foundations for their policies. [30] His senior undergraduate thesis, titled The Meaning of History: Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee and Kant, was over 400 pages long, and was the origin of the current limit on length (35,000 words). I once introduced him to Lana Turner and he said, Whos that?. For confrontation? Fleischers ex-husband, Kissinger was born on May 27, 1923, to Louis and Paula (Stern) Kissinger, Jews living inNazi Germany. He was totally withdrawn, says Fritz Kraemer, director of a military government school for officers of the 84th Division of the U.S. Army, which Henry entered as a private in 1943. Updates and news about all categories will send to you. Columnist Mary McGrory attests to that. They had two children, Elizabeth and David. On March 5, 2014, The Washington Post published an op-ed piece by Kissinger, 11 days before the Crimean referendum on whether Autonomous Republic of Crimea should officially rejoin Ukraine or join neighboring Russia. Celebrity Biographies. "[189], In an interview with Peter Robinson of the Hoover Institution on April 3, 2008, Kissinger reiterated that even though he supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq,[190] he thought that the George W. Bush administration rested too much of its case for war on Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction. Kissinger initially had little interest in China when he began his work as National Security Adviser in 1969, and the driving force behind the rapprochement with China was Nixon. He advocated the policy of detente with the erstwhile Soviet Union, and the People's Republic of China. Fv 27, 2023 . [10], Kissinger was born Heinz Alfred Kissinger on May 27, 1923, in Frth, Bavaria, Germany, the son of homemaker Paula (ne Stern; 19011998, from Leutershausen), and Louis Kissinger (18871982), a schoolteacher. With FRELIMO in control of Mozambique and even the apartheid regime of South Africa withdrawing its support, Rhodesia's isolation was nearly complete. Kissinger has been advising presidents since he was hired as a part-time consultant to John F. Kennedys National Security Council where his cultural knowledge of Germany and language skills were valued as a key asset in the early days of the Cold War. 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As a direct response to the dissent against US policy Kissinger and Nixon ended Archer Blood's tenure as United States consul general in East Pakistan and put him to work in the State Department's Personnel Office. [57] Kissinger said that the United States could not totally sever ties with Chiang, who had been an ally in World War II. Read CNN's Fast Facts about the life of former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. In a way, they complemented each other perfectly. As a part of this strategy, he negotiated the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (culminating in the SALT I treaty) and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty with Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. Those were crucial moments in my life, he told The Post. [241], Since his childhood, Kissinger has been a fan of his hometown's soccer club, SpVgg Frth (now SpVgg Greuther Frth). [45] After Nixon became president in January 1969, Kissinger was appointed as National Security Advisor. On Monday evening, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger celebrated his 90th birthday with an exclusive party held at the St. Regis Hotel. As he heads into his 100thyear, Kissinger still has a lot to say about the state of the world. "[207], In December 2016, Kissinger advised then President-elect Donald Trump to accept "Crimea as a part of Russia" in an attempt to secure a rapprochement between the United States and Russia, whose relations soured as a result of the Crimean crisis. Francis William Leahy, 64, football coach at Notre Dame who stepped into Knute Rockne's shoes but . [117] Only on March 19, 1974, 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 grounds that they might be used against Israel. (Hugh Hefner sent Henry a free subscription after a party at Barbara Howars at which he showed up carrying an envelope of classified information the Presidents Nov. 3, 1969, silent majority speech and told everybody it was his copy of Playboy.). They should not believe theyre in mortal conflict all the time with a significant element of the society. Leaders have to spend a lot of their efforts dealing mechanically with the various means of communication that now exist, and which also tend to shape various opinions.. Ann Fleischer (m. 1949-1964) () "" . The marriage lasted . Politics - Other. [3] For his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances.[4]. After Nixon was forced to resign in the Watergate scandal, Kissinger's influence in the new presidential administration of Gerald R. Ford was diminished after he was replaced by Brent Scowcroft as National Security Advisor during the "Halloween Massacre" cabinet reshuffle of November 1975. Aside from that, David Kissinger is known forEagleheart(2011),Andy Barker, P.I. The Nixon administration, with Kissinger's input, authorized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to encourage a military coup that would prevent Allende's inauguration, but the plan was not successful. I came from a situation in which I was part of a persecuted minority that had no civil rights., When I was in office, there were only three major news channels on television. He was previously married to Ann Fleischer. Nancy Kissinger(m. 1974),Ann Fleischer(m. 1949-1964: Son/Daughter: Yes (David Kissinger, Elizabeth Kissinger) Salary: Will update: Net Worths: $25 million: Henry Alfred Kissinger Age and birth place. In 1949, Kissinger married Ann Fleischer, who also had come to this country from Germany. 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