Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger turned 100 on Saturday and shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.
Kissinger will visit New York, London and his hometown of Fürth, Germany, this week to celebrate his 100th birthday, his son David wrote Thursday. Washington Post.
Young Kissinger said of his father, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, “it may have an air of inevitability to those who knew the strength of his character and his love of historical symbolism.” said. Not only did he outlive most of his peers and prominent detractors and students, but he remained active throughout his 90s. ”
“My father’s longevity is especially miraculous given the health regimen he followed throughout his adult life, which included a diet rich in bratwursts and Wiener schnitzels and a relentlessly stressful career in decision-making. , and a love of sport purely as a spectator “never a participant,” he added.
In recent years, the only survivor of the Nixon Cabinet, Elder Kissinger continues to influence power brokers in Washington.
The veteran politician still maintains an international consulting business today, advising Republican and Democratic presidents, including the White House during the Trump administration. Kissinger, a Jewish refugee who fled with his family from Nazi Germany in 1938, has not lost his thick German accent.
Just this month, Kissinger called for a negotiated peace to end the conflict, saying the war in Ukraine was reaching a tipping point with China entering the negotiations. He told CBS News he expects the negotiations to be finalized “by the end of the year.”
Kissinger, however, has a strong focus on US foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s, including negotiations to smooth relations with China and the eventual attempt to withdraw the US from Vietnam. Best known for his key roles, it wasn’t until he had close ties with many countries. The most contentious behavior in a dispute.
Like Nixon, Kissinger endured much criticism from U.S. allies when North Vietnamese communist forces occupied Saigon in 1975 and the remaining U.S. military personnel fled what is now known as Ho Chi Minh City. .
He has also been accused of orchestrating the expansion of the conflict into Laos and Cambodia, enabling the rise of a genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that has killed an estimated 2 million Cambodians.
Kissinger remained one of Nixon’s most trusted advisors throughout the 37th presidential administration from 1969 until 1974, when the Watergate scandal forced Nixon to resign.
In 1977, President Gerald Ford awarded the National Security Advisor Kissinger the Presidential Medal of Freedom for “exercising with wisdom and compassion the great powers of America in the cause of peace.”
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