Henry Kissinger on Nixon, as quoted in G. J. Bass, The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (2014), ch. 19

If the President had his way, we’d have a nuclear war every week.

— Henry Kissinger on Nuclear war

What It Means

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Henry Kissinger

About Henry Kissinger

Henry Alfred Kissinger (born Heinz Alfred Kissinger; May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023) was a German-American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938. For his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest.