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NEWS ABOUT: Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger stories: 11 news summaries
INTERVIEW

Obama Can Lead a Peaceful World: Kissinger

Former secretary of state admires president's early moves

Jul 7, 09 12:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former secretary of state Henry Kissinger has warm words for President Obama, whom he describes as "like a chess player who has opened his game with an unusual opening" in an interview with Der Spiegel. "I have no quarrel with the opening move," he adds. "I... More »

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Barack Obama • diplomacy • State Department • secretary of State • Henry Kissinger • peace • realism • idealism • neoconservatives

 Astor Witness List 
 Is Star-Studded 

Kissinger, Walters, Annan could testify

Apr 15, 09 9:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Brooke Astor trial could be a who’s-who of New York hotshots: The list of possible witnesses includes Henry Kissinger, Kofi Annan, David Rockefeller, and Barbara Walters, the Times reports. Vanity Fair boss Graydon Carter said he felt “very privileged” to be on the list, provided by the... More »

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crime • New York • Barbara Walters • trial • will • celebrity • Kofi Annan • Brooke Astor • Henry Kissinger • Anthony Marshall • Graydon Carter • David Rockefeller

OPINION

 Afghanistan Demands 
 Broader Strategy: Kissinger 

Diffuse country calls for localized military approach

Feb 26, 09 12:45 PM CST
(Newser) - The US can no longer afford to follow “traditional anti-insurgency tactics” in such a large, ethnically diverse, and “forbidding territory” as Afghanistan, Henry Kissinger writes in the Washington Post. Instead of focusing on a stronger centralized government, he urges a “coherent” strategy that supports “local and... More »

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Afghanistan • military strategy • David Petraeus • US military • Henry Kissinger • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Bill Maher Grid

 Palin Meets World Leaders 


Sep 23, 08 6:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin sought to ease concerns about her foreign policy experience by holding her first-ever meetings today with heads of state, the New York Times reports. Palin sat down for private conversations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, and also with Henry Kissinger and national security... More »

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Hamid Karzai • Henry Kissinger • Alvaro Uribe • Election 2008 • Sarah Palin

 Powell Sticks to 
 Fence in Prez Race 

Former secretary of state still undecided

Sep 16, 08 6:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Colin Powell has yet to make up his mind which way he'll vote in November, MSNBC reports. Speaking at a forum with four other former secretaries of state yesterday, the Republican said he would let neither his quarter-century friendship with John McCain—nor the "electrifying" prospect of the first... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • secretary of State • Colin Powell • Henry Kissinger • Madeleine Albright • James Baker • Warren Christopher

GLOSSIES

For McCain, Winning Is War's Only Honorable End

US must defend honor, even preemptively; Iraq offers chance to make up for Vietnam

Sep 10, 08 2:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s views on war and defending the US were shaped by his Navy father and by his own time in Vietnam, Jeffrey Goldberg writes in the Atlantic, with victory as the only honorable outcome. His father believed public sentiment led to defeat in Vietnam even as a winning... More »

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Iraq • John McCain • Vietnam • Vietnam War • Henry Kissinger • McCain 2008 • Iraq exit strategy

OPINION

Kissinger Outlines Endgame for Iraq—Without Deadlines

Foes may lie low to re-emerge, he says

Jul 31, 08 3:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Henry Kissinger outlines his vision for the endgame in Iraq in a piece in the Washington Post, arguing that recent progress makes redeployment of US troops feasible, but "establishing a deadline is the surest way to undermine the hopeful prospects." A fixed deadline would encourage both al-Qaeda... More »

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Iraq • military strategy • troop withdrawal • Henry Kissinger • Iraq exit strategy

Opinion

Kissinger: US Must Temper Approach as Russia Evolves

Medvedev's election may signal real political change, so ease back on the bullying

Jul 8, 08 11:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dmitry Medvedev has more power than some in the West believe, and Russia's political system is still evolving as Vladimir Putin moves from president to prime minister, Henry Kissinger writes in the Washington Post—and it behooves the US to throttle back. "The pace of such an evolution will... More »

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Russia • US foreign policy • Vladimir Putin • G8 summit • Ukraine • foreign policy • Henry Kissinger • Dmitry Medvedev

The Tug of War Over John McCain's Soul

Neocons, pragmatists battle for influence with Republican candidate

Apr 10, 08 1:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Republican “pragmatists” are growing uneasy seeing John McCain consorting with prominent neoconservatives, the New York Times reports. They fear McCain’s foreign policy isn’t as crystallized as it seems, and could be influenced by neocon advisers like John Bolton. “It might be too strong to say a... More »

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John McCain • pragmatism • campaign adviser • John Bolton • neocon • foreign policy • Henry Kissinger • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

Mao Offered US 10M Chinese Women

He joked to Kissinger
in 1973 that his nation had way too many

Feb 13, 08 9:54 PM CST
(Newser) - China’s Mao Zedong once jokingly offered the US 10 million women from his poor, overpopulated country to kickstart bilateral trade, the BBC reports. Other talks covered the Soviet threat, but during one chummy meeting with Henry Kissinger in Beijing in 1973, Mao said China’s female influx produced too... More »

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China • Soviet Union • Henry Kissinger • Chinese women • Mao Zedong • bilateral trade

FBI Spied on Coretta Scott King

Documents expose four-year surveillance campaign

Aug 31, 07 3:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - FBI agents mounted a four-year spying operation to scrutinize Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King, following the assassination of the civil rights leader. The newly released documents reveal that the Nixon administration feared Mrs. King, who died last year, might unite the civil rights movement and anti-war protesters into... More »

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FBI • Richard Nixon • surveillance • Martin Luther King Jr. • Coretta Scott King • Henry Kissinger • Andrew Young • Southern Christian Leadership Conference • civil rights movement

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