Henry Kissinger Dies: Controversial Former Secretary Of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Was 100
deadline.comHenry Kissinger, one of the key diplomats of the Cold War and a controversial National Security Advisor and Secretary of State for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, died tonight in his home in Connecticut at the age of 100.
A consultant to almost every President of the United States since leaving the State Department in 1977, Kissinger was instrumental in the historic opening to China in 1972.
He was also a hawk during the Vietnam War and other moves in the so-called Great Game of geopolitics, a master of Washington DC inside fighter and Middle East shuttle diplomacy.
With a legacy that is as complicated as any American statesman, the pragmatic and cynical German-born Kissinger was a much lauded and criticized recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for his role in ending the war in Southeast Asia.
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