Remembering Henry Kissinger - Foreign Policy Research Institute

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Both these positions emphasize Kissinger's agency, his virtuoso performance, and his capacity to steer the ship of state.
54% : I would rank him among the top-three twentieth-century secretaries of state, together with Charles Evans Hughes and Dean Acheson, and among the top-five in our nation's history together with John Quincy Adams and William Henry Seward.
52% : Below, five FPRI experts examine the legacy of the former national security advisor and secretary of state.
29% : To be sure, he will remain a controversial figure, but historians will surely record that his tenure as Nelson Rockefeller's chief adviser on nuclear weapons and foreign policy, President Richard Nixon's national security advisor (side note: Kissinger was selected over the other finalist for that post, FPRI's own Robert Strausz-Hupe!), Nixon's and President Gerald Ford's secretary of state, and as the influential chief of his consulting firm Kissinger Associates made his career more impactful on American foreign policy than that of any other individual ... and he remained in the forefront of policy debates for sixty-plus years.

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