Henry Kissinger was a trusted confidant to President Nixon until...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : (AP Photo, File)FILE - President Richard Nixon, right, offers his congratulations to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, after the secretary won the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Oct. 16, 1973.
62% : "Heinz Alfred Kissinger was born in the Bavarian city of Fuerth on May 27, 1923, the son of a schoolteacher who lost his job because of anti-Jewish discrimination.
55% : "FILE - Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, left, gestures to the audience in the East Room of the White House, Sept. 22, 1973, as President Richard Nixon watches, in Washington.
55% : In his life after government, the ex-diplomat´s Kissinger Associates earned him millions as a statesman-for-hire who offered foreign policy advice and diplomatic introductions for private corporations that paid $200,000 or more a year for his services.
53% : (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev, File)FILE - Secretary of State Henry Kissinger briefs reporters, Oct. 12, 1973, at the State Department in Washington.
52% : "I think he was a super secretary of state," Ford added, "but Henry in his mind never made a mistake, so whatever policies there were that he implemented, in retrospect he would defend."
52% : (AP Photo/Jim Palmer, File)FILE - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, Oct. 10, 2017, in Washington.
51% : FILE - Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is seen during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, June 6, 2006.
51% : (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)FILE - Henry Kissinger, professor of government at Harvard University, is seen in this December 1968 photo.
50% : Kissinger had just been sworn in as the 56th secretary of state.
50% : "During his 39 months as secretary of state between 1973 and 1977, Kissinger flew hundreds of thousands of miles, conferring with world leaders and trying to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
49% : "Never without his detractors, Kissinger after he left government was dogged by critics who argued that he should be called to account for his policies on Southeast Asia and support of repressive regimes in Latin America.
45% : In a taped 1973 conversation, Kissinger, the first Jewish secretary of state, is dismissive of pleas to push the Soviet Union to allow Jews to emigrate.
43% : For eight restless years - first as national security adviser, later as secretary of state, and for a time in the middle holding both titles - Kissinger ranged across the breadth of major foreign policy issues.
40% : When Columbia University proposed to give Kissinger a teaching post after he left government in 1977, the idea drew such strong protest among students and faculty that the job never materialized.
36% : From the start, Kissinger and Nixon maneuvered to keep control over foreign policy in their hands - and away from Secretary of State William Rogers and the State Department career diplomats, whom they both scorned.
29% : After Democrat Jimmy Carter succeeded Ford, Kissinger served in government as an adviser, but he was viewed with suspicion by conservatives in Ronald Reagan´s presidency.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.