Kissinger, Henry

Cultural  

1. A scholar and government official of the twentieth century. As an adviser and later secretary of state under President Richard Nixon, Kissinger prepared for the opening of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. During the Vietnam War, he helped Nixon plan and execute a secret bombing of Cambodia, and his negotiations with the government of North Vietnam helped produce a cease-fire in that war. He was cowinner of the Nobel Prize for peace in 1973.

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Example Sentences

At a recent conference I attended on the outskirts of Beijing, with Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Henry Paulson and many American officials and executives, the swagger of the Chinese officials was notable.

From New York Times

Then she walked over to “Reference” and slid an encyclopedia off a shelf to see if “Kissing” had an entry, but nothing appeared between Kishinev, the capital of the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR, and Kissinger, Henry, born in Germany and a naturalized American like her father.

From Literature

Had he been an American, he would have been Henry Kissinger, Henry Stimson and Henry Kaiser rolled into one.

From The Wall Street Journal

The distraught Nixon requested of Kissinger: "Henry, please don't ever tell anyone that I cried and that I was not strong."

From Time Magazine Archive