Why Washington Couldn't Quit Kissinger

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : I heard you say, about him being the greatest scholar-practitioner of the era, "I believe that Henry combines scholarship, as well as ability, to be effective in government.
54% : I would say he was one of the four great post-World War Two Secretaries of State, with George Marshall, Dean Acheson, and James Baker.
52% : I think he'll be seen as someone who, in his eight years in government with Nixon and Ford, transformed U.S. relations with China and stabilized U.S. relations with the Soviet Union.
49% : Henry Kissinger, the former national-security adviser and Secretary of State who served in the Nixon and Ford Administrations and became the most famous American diplomat of the twentieth century, died this week, at the age of a hundred.
46% : Although he has been excoriated, and sometimes called a war criminal, by writers such as Seymour Hersh and Christopher Hitchens, he remained in the good graces of Administrations of both parties well after his time in government, was a frequent presence on the party and social circuit in New York and Washington, D.C., consulted with a wide range of governments and appeared on corporate boards, and published best-selling books.

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