Henry A. Kissinger, who dominated US foreign policy, dies at 100 - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : This tension between larger-than-life persona and humdrum appearance fueled public fascination with Dr. Kissinger.
55% : Dr. Kissinger became an assistant professor of government there that year and a full professor in 1962.
54% : Bearing out the claim of one biographer that Dr. Kissinger was "the most powerful and celebrated public servant in modern American history" is his having been one of only three persons to serve as both national security adviser and secretary of state (the others are Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice).
54% : Just as his appointment as secretary of state was about to be announced, Ullmann called him from Norway.
51% : "If anything, the secretary of state would prove an even more dominant figure in the Ford Cabinet -- as then-Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin later put it in his memoirs, Dr. Kissinger was "the incontestable captain of American diplomacy" -- and in acknowledgment of his contributions to his administration Ford presented him with the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977.
48% : "By the time I hung up the phone," Dr. Kissinger recalled, "I had missed hearing myself named as the next secretary of state.
42% : Both Christopher Hitchens's book "The Trial of Henry Kissinger" (2001) and a documentary film "The Trials of Henry Kissinger" (2002) argued that he should be tried for alleged crimes he committed as national security adviser and secretary of state.
40% : The odd man out was Secretary of State William P. Rogers, and the rivalry between him and Dr. Kissinger went to often-ludicrous lengths.
38% : "Dr. Kissinger remained controversial long after leaving government.

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