Henry Kissinger, a statesman who indelibly shaped US foreign policy, dies at 100

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "He was the most influential secretary of State in modern times but not the most constructive or successful," Dallek said in a 2007 interview.
52% : Helmut Sonnenfeldt, also a German refugee who rose to become a top aide to Kissinger at the White House and State Department, was the Soviet and East bloc specialist on the National Security Council.
41% : Kissinger became national security adviser when Nixon took office in 1969 and in 1973 became secretary of State, after overshadowing William Rogers, Nixon's first secretary of State, by taking the lead on important foreign policy issues.
40% : Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says that "Russia has, in a way, already lost the war" in Ukraine.
20% : When Rockefeller lost the Republican nomination to Nixon in 1968, Kissinger shifted his allegiance 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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