We didn't want the Vietnamese to dominate. Henry has married twice. [40] As National Security Advisor in 1974, Kissinger directed the much-debated National Security Study Memorandum 200. Although he possessed absolute authority and powers of arrest, Kissinger took care to avoid abuses against the local population by his command. [105], According to notes taken by H. R. Haldeman, Nixon "ordered his aides to exclude all Jewish-Americans from policy-making on Israel", including Kissinger. Kissinger: Yes, China has been a very important element in the mechanics of my success. Gender: Male. [152], The Portuguese decolonization process brought U.S. attention to the former Portuguese colony of East Timor, which declared its independence in 1975. "'A Situation That Had to Be Manipulated': The American Airlift to Israel During the Yom Kippur War". Kissinger, along with South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster, pressured Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith to hasten the transition to black majority rule in Rhodesia. [192] A few months before the Games opened, as controversy over China's human rights record was intensifying due to criticism by Amnesty International and other groups of the widespread use of the death penalty and other issues, Kissinger told the PRC's official press agency Xinhua: "I think one should separate Olympics as a sporting event from whatever political disagreements people may have had with China. Kissinger's involvement in Indochina started prior to his appointment as National Security Adviser to Nixon. A US$75 million investment in a joint venture with the Communist Party government's primary commercial vehicle at the time, China International Trust & Investment Corporation (CITIC), was its purpose. Kissinger was the charming and worldly Mr. Outside who provided the grace and intellectual-establishment respectability that Nixon lacked, disdained and aspired to. [216], At the height of Kissinger's prominence, many commented on his wit. Kissinger is a member of the following groups: He received the Theodore Roosevelt American Experience Award from the, He became the Honorary Chair of the advisory board for the. On June 19, 1943, while stationed in South Carolina, at the age of 20 years, he became a naturalized U.S.citizen. Some years later, Kissinger expressed the opinion that the Cyprus issue was resolved in 1974. [116] Despite all of Kissinger's efforts to charm him, Faisal refused to lift the oil embargo. [183] Kissinger shared similarly critical views on Western involvement in Kosovo. Kissinger married Ann Fleischer on February 6, 1949. Collected documentation for Kissinger's memoirs. We had long passed that threshold". 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[134] This murder was part of Operation Condor, a covert program of political repression and assassination carried out by Southern Cone nations that Kissinger has been accused of being involved in. [183] In addition, he repeatedly warned the West against inserting itself into a conflict that has its roots at least hundreds of years back in time, and said that the West would do better if it allowed the Serbs and Croats to join their respective countries. Kissinger sneered at people who "bleed" for "the dying Bengalis" and ignored the first telegram from the United States consul general in East Pakistan, Archer K. Blood, and 20 members of his staff, which informed the US that their allies West Pakistan were undertaking, in Blood's words, "a selective genocide" targeting the Bengali intelligentsia, supporters of independence for East Pakistan, and the Hindu minority. However, many scholars, including Kissinger's biographer Walter Isaacson, have disagreed and argued that his experiences influenced the formation of his realist approach to foreign policy. Takeyh writes that while rapprochement with China was a worthy goal, the Nixon administration failed to achieve any meaningful concessions from Chinese officials in return, as China continued to support North Vietnam and various "revolutionary forces throughout the Third World", "nor does there appear to be even a remote, indirect connection between Nixon and Kissinger's diplomacy and the communist leadership's decision, after Mao's bloody rule, to move away from a communist economy towards state capitalism. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for the ceasefire, but the agreement fell . Gave this guy an hour to pony up a real name and stand fast. . [222][223][224][225] Critics on the right, such as Ray Takeyh, have faulted Kissinger for his role in the Nixon administration's opening to China and secret negotiations with North Vietnam. In a demonstration by students in Heraklion, Crete,[124][125] soon after the second phase of the Turkish invasion in August 1974, slogans such as "Kissinger, murderer", "Americans get out", "No to Partition" and "Cyprus is no Vietnam" were heard. [227] On October 6, 1972, Kissinger told Nixon twice that the terms of the Paris Peace Accords would probably destroy South Vietnam: "I also think that Thieu is right, that our terms will eventually destroy him. Per Lennart Aae ( Saksamaa Rahvusdemokraatlik Partei) Frank Aaen ( Enhetslisten ), Taani Folketingi liige. 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[67] The South Vietnamese President Nguyn Vn Thiu did not want the United States to withdraw from Vietnam, and out of frustration with him, Kissinger decided to begin secret peace talks with Th in Paris parallel to the official talks that the South Vietnamese were unaware of. Kissinger delayed telling President Richard Nixon about the start of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 in order to keep him from interfering in the nascent conflict. Henry Alfred Kissinger (/ k s n d r /; [1] alemo: [ks]; nascido Heinz Alfred Kissinger, em 27 de maio de 1923) um poltico, diplomata e especialista em geopoltica americano que serviu Secretrio de Estado e Conselheiro de Segurana Nacional dos Estados Unidos nos governos dos presidentes Richard Nixon e Gerald Ford. [151], In contrast to the unfriendly disposition of the previous Kennedy and Johnson administrations towards the racist, corporatist Estado Novo regime of Portugal, particularly with regards to its stubborn, quixotic attempts to maintain the Portuguese Colonial Empire by waging the Portuguese Colonial War against anti-colonial rebellions in defence of its empire, the Department of State under Kissinger adopted a more conciliatory attitude towards Portugal. [104] Applying his favorite "linkage" concept, Nixon intended henceforward economic relations with Europe would not be severed from security relations, and if the EEC states wanted changes in American tariff and monetary policies, the price would be defense spending on their part. 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