Henry Kissinger, the towering American diplomat, dies at age 100

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Three months after the Watergate break-in on June 17, 1972, Nixon's national security advisor was confirmed as his secretary of State, becoming the first foreign-born head of that Cabinet department.
56% : Even before that diplomatic whirlwind, he visited at least 26 countries in his first 3½ months as secretary of State, from October to December 1973.
53% : Two years earlier, with Nixon looking on, Paula Kissinger proudly held the Bible for her son as he was sworn in as secretary of State.
52% : The confrontation came one month after Kissinger became secretary of State.
49% : He joined the faculty of the school of government in 1954, and gained wide attention for his 1957 book "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy," in which he proposed that a policy based on the declared willingness to engage in limited nuclear war was a greater deterrent in a bipolar world than the Eisenhower administration's strategy of massive retaliation.
39% : Journalist Walter Isaacson's 1992 biography "Kissinger" portrayed the former secretary of State as a complicated pragmatist who mastered the art of nuance.
35% : He continued to serve as national security advisor until three months after Nixon's resignation in August 1974, and remained as secretary of State until Ford left office in 1977.

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