Kissinger further noted that the preservation of West Pakistan was far more important for the United States than anything in the region.

As Henry Kissinger has noted, " The man of ' blood and iron ' wrote prose of extraordinary directness and lucidity, comparable in distinctiveness to Churchill's use of the English language.

The Army received indirect support from such critics of massive retaliation as Bernard Brodie, William W. Kaufmann, and Henry A. Kissinger, who noted that the United States and the Soviet Union had or were acquiring the power to destroy each other with strategic nuclear weapons, thus precluding their rational use in response to a limited attack.

Students who are Ashbrook scholars experience academic seminars where they interact with noted figures in the conservative movement, e. g. Margaret Thatcher, Henry Kissinger, among others.

Kissinger maintained that Nixon made specific proposals to Gandhi on a solution for the crisis, some of which she heard for the first time ; for example, mutual withdrawal of troops from the Indo-East Pakistan borders.

However, she did receive the most " no " votes since Henry Kissinger, who received 7.

Over the years, Galina Starovoitova attended numerous international meetings and discussions, where she had conversations with world leaders including Margaret Thatcher, Jacques Chirac, Václav Havel, Henry Kissinger and Lech Wałęsa.

Kissinger also increasingly bypassed the Department of State to supervise personally sensitive negotiations in order to avoid what he and President Nixon agreed were likely bureaucratic disputes and inertia.

In 1976 US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger formulated what came to be known as a six-step " Kissinger Plan " ( or " Kissinger Initiative ") with the concurrence of the British government and the participation of South Africa's Vorster.

In 1976 the club saw what could be said to be its most prestigious visitor when the local Member of Parliament and then Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland invited the then American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to watch the Mariners play Gillingham.

He then informed Kissinger to accept the terms offered in October, if that was what it took to get the agreement signed.

However, the Ba ' ath government finally managed to achieve what previous Iraqi governments failed to do-an agreement with Iran on March 6, 1975 during an OPEC meeting in Algeria, creating the 1975 Algiers Agreement endorsed by US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger which saw Iran end its aid to Barzani and the KDP.

Unsure of what to do, Thatcher consulted former U. S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, though consultation proved fruitless in the end.

Similarly, while having several characters as students in a class taught by Henry Kissinger, the dialogue made up for Kissinger would also come from “ off-panel ” ( although Kissinger had earlier appeared as a character with his face shown in a 1972 series of strips in which he met Mark Slackmeyer while the latter was on a trip to Washington ).

It was in the national interest of the US to preserve West Pakistan ....", Kissinger maintained.

Kissinger was born Heinz Alfred Kissinger in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany in 1923 during the Weimar Republic to a family of German Jews.

His father, Louis Kissinger ( 1887 – 1982 ) was a schoolteacher.

His mother, Paula ( Stern ) Kissinger ( 1901 – 1998 ), was a homemaker.

The surname Kissinger was adopted in 1817 by his great-great-grandfather Meyer Löb, after the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen .< ref >

A State Department document made available by the National Security Archive on 10 April 2010 reveals that a démarche protesting Pinochet's Operation: Condor assassination program was proposed and sent on 23 August 1976 to US diplomatic missions in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to be delivered to their host governments but later rescinded on 16 September 1976 by Henry Kissinger, following concerns raised by US ambassadors assigned there of both personal safety and a likely diplomatic contretemps.

The early-1978 proposition by Moro of a DC-PSI cabinet supported also by the PCI was strongly opposed by both super-powers: the USA ( and its State Secretary Henry Kissinger in particular ) feared that the collaboration of an Italian government with the Communists might have allowed these later to gain information on strategic NATO military plans and installations, and pass them to Soviet agents.

But finally Aldo Moro did not quit politics ; in the month following the Kissinger / Moro meeting, Aldo Moro was heading to the Italian Parliament for the crucial vote Moro had proposed when Moro was kidnapped and subsequently murdered.

Indeed, by the late 1960s, the unwavering stance of the Hallstein Doctrine was actually considered detrimental to US interests ; numerous American advisors and policymakers, most notably Henry Kissinger, urged Bonn to be more flexible.

Secretary of State Henry Kissinger spoke with Fischer urging him to play the match, and chess was at its apex.

The policy of Realpolitik was formally introduced to the Richard Nixon White House by Henry Kissinger.

It was organized during the initial phase of the U. S. policy of Vietnamization, which was devised by U. S. President Richard Nixon and his national security advisor Henry Kissinger early in their administration.

According to Kissinger, Nixon picked Rogers, who was inexperienced in foreign affairs, to indicate that the President would dominate the relationship between the NSC and the Department of State.

NSDM 2 was rightly perceived as a victory for Kissinger and helped to establish his foreign policy authority at the outset of the administration.

By the time the increasingly complicated committee structure was settled, Kissinger chaired six NSC-related committees: the Senior Review Group ( non-crisis, non-arms control matters ), the Washington Special Actions Group ( serious crises ), the Verification Panel ( arms control negotiations ), the 40 Committee ( clandestine operations ), the Intelligence Committee ( policy for the intelligence community ), and the Defense Program Review Committee ( relation of the defense budget to foreign policy aims ).

Dobrynin was told by Kissinger to deal with the Secretary of State only on a limited range of less vital matters.

With his negotiations in Paris in 1971 regarding Vietnam and with the Soviet Union in advance of summit meetings, Kissinger was a traveling negotiator, and the NSC was a system on the move.

All parties agree that Kissinger did not express his displeasure directly to Hoge ; in fact, Maxwell quotes Hoge as saying in January 2004, " Henry will not speak to me or shake my hand ," but that he was " called and ' sworn at for half an hour ' by Greenberg ".

On one occasion Wozniak dialed Vatican City and identified himself as Henry Kissinger ( imitating Kissinger's German accent ) and asked to speak to the Pope ( who was sleeping at the time ).

In an interview, Koppel commented, " Henry Kissinger is, plain and simply, the best secretary of state we have had in 20, maybe 30 years – certainly one of the two or three great secretaries of state of our century ," and added, " I ’ m proud to be a friend of Henry Kissinger.

On September 16, 1973, approximately one week after Pinochet had assumed power, the following exchange about the coup took place between U. S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and President Richard Nixon:

In September 2004, Elkann married the Italian countess Lavinia Borromeo on Isola Madre, one of the Borromean Islands of Lake Maggiore ; the reception, held on nearby Isola Bella, featured a 5 meter long chocolate cake depicting the Lingotto car plant of Turin and a unicorn, the heraldic symbol of the Borromeo family, and a guest list including Henry Kissinger, Mario Monti, Michel Platini, Valentino Garavani, Carla Bruni and Elle Macpherson.

Unfortunately, when the gourmet night arrives, only four people turn up ( Colonel and Mrs. Hall, both JPs and Lionel Twitchen, one of Torquay's leading rotarians, along with his wife, Lotte ) due to Basil including a " no riff-raff " notice in his advertisement after a rude and pampered boy brands the hotel a " dump " simply because his chips weren't the shape he preferred and they didn't have any salad cream ( to which Basil responds by " accidentally " elbowing him in the head and comparing him to " Henry Kissinger ").

") Maxwell points out several places in which Falcoff misquoted documents in ways favorable to Kissinger, for example changing a remark of Kissinger's, talking to Nixon on the phone about the coup, from " Well we didn't – as you know – our hand doesn ’ t show on this one though ," to simply " We didn't do it.

Along with Dimitri K. Simes, Anatol Lieven, and John Hulsman, Gvosdev is seen as one of the proponents of the " new realism " in foreign policy — one that acknowledges a greater role for values than traditional realpolitik as espoused by Henry Kissinger but nonetheless puts a stress on setting priorities.

According to Thomas J. Johnson, a professor of journalism at Southern Illinois University, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger predicted during Nixon's final days that history would remember Nixon as a great president and that Watergate would be relegated to a " minor footnote.

Moro's widow later recounted Moro's meeting with U. S. President Nixon's advisor, Henry Kissinger, and an unidentified American intelligence official, who warned him not to pursue the strategy of bringing the Communist Party into his cabinet, telling him " You must abandon your policy of bringing all the political forces in your country into direct collaboration ... or you will pay dearly for it.

Throughout Nixon's first term, only Kissinger participated in the President's important discussions with foreign state visitors.

Lake, a former Foreign Service officer, served under Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's National Security Adviser, and as director of the Department of State Policy Planning Staff during the Carter administration.

He approached Nixon's National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, Senators William Fulbright and George McGovern, and others, but none was interested.

In his 1992 biography of Henry Kissinger, Walter Isaacson records that on 6 October 1973, during the 1973 Arab Israeli War, Kissinger urged President Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig to keep Nixon in Florida in order to avoid " any hysterical moves " and to " keep any Walter Mitty tendencies under control ".

However, his influence was drastically circumscribed throughout his tenure by Nixon's determination to handle critical foreign policy strategy and execution directly from the White House through his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger.

Bush initially selected former Nixon's Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger to head the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States ( 9 / 11 Commission ).

Hours before the president's speech announcing the mining, Kissinger had delivered a letter to Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin which outlined the U. S. plan, but which also made clear Nixon's willingness to proceed with the summit.

Along the same lines, American diplomats ( Henry Kissinger in particular ) portrayed the 1970 incursion into Cambodia as a symptom of Nixon's supposed instability.

Anticipating Israeli requests, Henry Kissinger, the United States Secretary of State and President Richard Nixon's National Security Adviser, made arrangements for El Al to pick up some items, including ammunition, " high technology products " and AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles at a US naval base in Virginia on October 7, and was later presented with a list of priority arms ; a modest effort soon began, but Kissinger still hoped to keep any visible involvement at a minimum.