Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died at the age of 100, Fox News reports.
The former secretary of state and national security advisor served under both Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
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He pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, began a rapprochement with China, and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for negotiating the Paris Peace Accords to end US involvement in Vietnam.
But other of his policies, including the bombing of Cambodia and Laos in 1969, remain controversial and journalist Seymour Hersh claimed in 2002, “The dark side of Henry Kissinger is very, very dark.”
Even his appearance seemed at odds with his social life: portly, bespectacled and heavily accented, Kissinger was far from the idea of a Hollywood Adonis. Yet at various points before his second marriage, according to his biographer, Walter Isaacson, Kissinger dated actresses Jill St. John, Shirley MacLaine, Marlo Thomas, Candice Bergen and Liv Ullman.…
He maintained his global influence well after leaving public life, evidenced most recently by his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in July. The Chinese leader greeted the former American diplomat—who had celebrated his 100th birthday less than two months prior—with deep respect.
Xi said of Kissinger, “The Chinese people never forget their old friends, and Sino-U.S. relations will always be linked with the name of Henry Kissinger.”
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