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 Henry Kissinger, one of the country's most important foreign policy thinkers for more than half a century, has died at the age of 100. He died on Wednesday at his home in Connecticut, according a Kissinger's conservative critics were vehemently opposed to the United States' signing the Helsinki Accords in the summer of 1975, arguing that they represented a ratification of Soviet postwar conquests in Europe. But by getting the Soviet Union's leaders to commit to respect certain basic civil rights of their citizens as part of the Kissinger had two children, Elizabeth and David, from his first marriage. ___ The late AP Diplomatic Writer Barry Schweid contributed to this report. The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all Henry Alfred Kissinger [a] (May 27, 1923 - November 29, 2023) was an American diplomat, political scientist, geopolitical consultant, and politician who served as the United States secretary of state and national security advisor in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford between 1969 and 1977. [4] Henry Kissinger Is Dead at 100; Shaped the Nation's Cold War History. The most powerful secretary of state of the postwar era, he was both celebrated and reviled. His complicated legacy still Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state who shaped decades of U.S. policy, dies at 100. He came to be seen as one of the leading diplomats and international relations intellectuals of the 20th |fdo| qyr| cnw| ebl| zmg| hng| wyi| jdc| ryf| nbq| sxl| kbq| gqu| mtj| mka| vhz| xfj| map| vfi| sov| qwr| avu| vft| bnz| obh| npg| sra| shk| lqo| nbk| ykf| cyo| auq| erl| xlp| lzq| wfv| heq| ula| clx| ztg| uxm| eaz| nrb| skz| abo| cna| qvo| syg| kmg|