Henry Kissinger, America's most famous diplomat, dies at 100

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : "He is, so far as this American is concerned," said Ford in awarding him a Presidential Medal of Freedom in early 1977, "the greatest Secretary of State in the history of our Republic.
57% : He was the first Jewish person to serve as U.S. secretary of state.
55% : In September 1973, Kissinger, without surrendering the duties of national security adviser, became secretary of State.
52% : The former secretary of State will be forever connected with President Richard M. Nixon, particularly for their efforts in three areas: getting America out of the Vietnam War, opening diplomatic relations with China, and reducing tensions with the Soviet Union.
48% : John Belushi ("I'm a really, really fat roly-poly diplomat") and future Sen. Al Franken portrayed him during the early years of NBC's "Saturday Night Live," and Kissinger appeared on such TV shows as "The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast."The 1976 Peter Sellers comedy "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" featured a German-accented secretary of state with bushy eyebrows who was clearly Kissinger.
44% : Kissinger and his chief military aide, Gen. Alexander Haig, took charge of Nixon's power center on foreign policy, allowing Nixon to routinely bypass Secretary of State William Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird -- and the career professionals working for them.

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