Henry Kissinger, Top U.S. Diplomat Responsible for Millions of Deaths, Dies at 100

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : While teaching at Harvard, he was a consultant for the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson before serving as national security adviser from 1969 to 1975 and secretary of state from 1973 to 1977 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
57% : He then joined the Harvard faculty, with appointments in the Department of Government and at the Center for International Affairs.
57% : Biden's Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, also had a long, cordial relationship with his distant predecessor.
56% : Samantha Power, who built her reputation and career on human rights advocacy and went on to serve as the Obama administration's ambassador to the United Nations and the Biden administration's head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, befriended Kissinger before receiving the American Academy of Berlin's Henry A. Kissinger Prize from Kissinger himself.
55% : A proponent of realpolitik, Kissinger greatly influenced U.S. foreign policy while serving in government and, in the decades that followed, counseled U.S. presidents and sat on numerous corporate and government advisory boards while authoring a small library of bestselling books on history and diplomacy.
55% : As secretary of state and national security adviser, Kissinger spearheaded efforts to improve relations with the former Soviet Union and "opened" the People's Republic of China to the West for the first time since Mao Zedong came to power in 1949.
55% : Hillary Clinton called Kissinger "a friend" and said she "relied on his counsel" while serving as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama.
48% : "Indeed, his death ought to trigger a full airing of U.S. support for abuses around the world during the Cold War and since, maybe even a truth commission, to establish an historical record, promote a measure of accountability, and if the United States were ready to apologize or acknowledge our misdeeds - as we have done in places like Guatemala and Iran - to foster a kind of reconciliation with the countries whose people suffered the abuses."
45% : Henry Kissinger, National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under two presidents and longtime éminence grise of the U.S. foreign policy establishment, died on November 29 at his home in Connecticut.
40% : "Much of the world considered Kissinger to be a war criminal, but who would have dared put the handcuffs on an American secretary of state?" asked Brody, who brought historic legal cases against Pinochet, Chadian dictator Hissène Habré, and others.

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