Opinion | The most important thing to remember about Henry Kissinger

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : His 100th birthday fete in New York City was attended by a staggering number of well-connected figures, from current officials like Secretary of State Antony Blinken and CIA Director William Burns to the New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and fashion magnate Diane von Furstenberg.
65% : The years were kind to Kissinger, who was the secretary of state under then-President Richard Nixon.
55% : Kissinger later served as Nixon's secretary of state after his re-election in 1972, the first and only person to wear both hats.
49% : After Nixon resigned, Kissinger stayed on as secretary of state for Gerald Ford, as well.
40% : "The Yale University historian Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger's Shadow, estimates that Kissinger's actions from 1969 through 1976, a period of eight brief years when Kissinger made Richard Nixon's and then Gerald Ford's foreign policy as national security adviser and secretary of state, meant the end of between three and four million people," journalist Spencer Ackerman wrote in Rolling Stone's scathing obituary.

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