Kissinger's Very Mixed Legacy of Brilliance and Brutality * Stimson Center

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Kissinger was also an intensely controversial figure, harshly criticized for policies that contributed to thousands of U.S. combat deaths in Vietnam, genocide in Cambodia, and a coup in Chile that led to two decades of authoritarian rule.
61% : Kissinger was the first superstar Secretary of State, the man who perfected "shuttle diplomacy," helped Richard Nixon open U.S. relations with China, and won a Nobel prize for extricating the United States from a losing war in Vietnam.
61% : After his victory, Nixon made Kissinger his national security adviser and in 1973, secretary of State as well.
54% : "He was the most influential secretary of State in modern times but not the most constructive or successful," Dallek added.
51% : Kraemer told Kissinger, "Gentlemen don't go to CCNY (City College of New York); they go to Harvard," said Helmut Sonnenfeldt, another German refugee who rose to become a top aide to Kissinger at the White House and State Department.
35% : Two of the five members of the Nobel committee resigned in protest.
29% : When Rockefeller failed to secure the Republican nomination in 1968, Kissinger shifted to Nixon, offering confidential information about U.S. negotiations with communist North Vietnam that helped Nixon win the election, according to several historians, among them William Bundy, a former assistant secretary of State.

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