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Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Henry A. (Heinz Alfred) Kissinger (1923–2023)
Henry A. (Heinz Alfred) Kissinger - People - Department History
Introduction
Henry Alfred Kissinger was appointed Secretary of State on September 21 by President Richard M. Nixon and served in the position from September 23, 1973 to January 20, 1977. With his appointment, he became the first person ever to serve as both Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, a position he had held since President Nixon was sworn into office on January 20, 1969. However, on November 3, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford removed him from his National Security Adviser position while keeping him as Secretary of State.
Henry A. Kissinger, 56th Secretary of State
Rise to Prominence
Kissinger was born as Heinz Alfred Kissinger in Germany. After the Nazis seized power, state sanctioned anti-Semitism made life for the Kissinger family, which was Jewish, very difficult. In 1938, Kissinger’s family immigrated to the United States and settled in New York, and Kissinger’s name was changed to Henry.
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Henry Kissinger
1923-2023
Henry Kissinger Today: Nobel Peace Prize–Winning Diplomat Dies at Age 100
Influential diplomat Henry Kissinger died November 29 at his Connecticut home, according to a statement from his consulting firm. The centenarian served as the 56th U.S. secretary of state, from 1973 to 1977, under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. “Secretary Kissinger really set the standard for everyone who followed in this job,” current Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday. “I was very privileged to get his counsel many times, including as recently as about a month ago.”
Who Was Henry Kissinger?
Henry Kissinger was one of the most influential American diplomats of the 20th century and served as U.S. secretary of state from 1973 to 1977. With his family, the German teenager immigrated to the United States and eventually became a Harvard University professor before assuming leadership in the foreign policy of his adopted country. He advised six U.S. presidents, from John F. Kennedy to George H.W. Bush, with Richard Nixon appointing him to secretary o
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Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
Henry Kissinger, c.1970 ©Kissinger is an American academic and politician who played a dominant role in US foreign policy in the late 1960s and 1970s and won the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in negotiating an end to US involvement in Vietnam.
Heinz Alfred Kissinger was born on 27 May 1923 in Fuerth, Germany into a Jewish family who emigrated to the US in 1938 to escape Nazism. Kissinger became a US citizen in 1943. After wartime service in the army Kissinger went to Harvard University. He stayed on to teach at Harvard and began to serve as an occasional foreign policy adviser to the US government.
In 1969, US President Richard Nixon appointed Kissinger as national security advisor. His guiding philosophy was that foreign policy should serve the national interest - a pragmatic outlook dubbed 'realpolitik'. Kissinger arranged Nixon's two famous summit visits, to China and the Soviet Union, in 1972. These visits introduced the policy of detente by which the US sought to defuse tensions with the communist powers.
In 1973, Kissinger became secret
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