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May 27, 2023 | 4:49 p.m
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger turned 100 on Saturday and shows no signs of slowing down any time soon.
Kissinger will be celebrating his 100th anniversary this week with visits to New York, London and his hometown of Fürth, his son David wrote in the Washington Post on Thursday.
The younger Kissinger said his father, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, “might exude an air of inevitability to anyone familiar with his strength of character and love of historical symbolism.” Not only does he have most of his peers, eminent critics and students, but has also remained relentlessly active in his 90s.”
“My father’s longevity is particularly miraculous considering the health routine he has followed throughout his adult life. That includes a diet high in bratwurst and wiener schnitzel, a career filled with unrelentingly stressful decisions, and a love of the sport just as a spectator, never a participant,” he added.
In recent years, the elder Kissinger – the only surviving member of Nixon’s cabinet – has continued to influence Washington’s power brokers.
Henry Kissinger helped navigate the United States through the Vietnam War, the Richard Nixon presidency, and other turbulent times in the 1960s and 1970s. AFP via Getty Images
The Elder Statesman has advised Republican and Democratic presidents, including the White House during the Trump administration, while also running an international consulting firm. Kissinger, a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, has not lost his thick German accent.
Just this month, Kissinger said the war in Ukraine is reaching a turning point as China begins negotiations and called for peace through negotiations to end the conflict. He told CBS News he expects negotiations to reach a climax “by the end of the year.”
Henry Kissinger has offered advice to many former Republican and Democratic presidents, including Donald Trump.AFP via Getty Images Former South African President Nelson Mandela greets former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger upon his arrival for their meeting in Johannesburg April 13, 1994.AFP via Getty Images
However, Kissinger is still best known for his key role in American foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s – including negotiations to improve relations with China and eventual attempts to pull the US out of Vietnam – although not before becoming inseparable from many of was linked to them The most controversial acts of the conflict.
Kissinger, along with Nixon, endured much of the criticism from American allies when North Vietnamese Communist forces captured Saigon in 1975 as remaining US forces fled what is now Ho Chi Minh City.
He has also been accused of orchestrating the expansion of the conflict into Laos and Cambodia, thereby enabling the rise of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, which killed an estimated two million Cambodians.
Kissinger remained one of Nixon’s most trusted advisers during the 37th President’s tenure from 1969 to 1974, when the Watergate scandal forced Nixon out of office.
President Gerald Ford awarded Kissinger, his national security adviser, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977, saying he had “used the great power of America with wisdom and compassion in the service of peace.”
With post wires
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