Henry Kissinger: US Loses ‘One Of The Most Dependable’ Voices On Foreign Affairs

 

The former secretary of state under Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, has died. His consulting firm Kissinger Associates announced on Wednesday that he died at his home in Connecticut and would be interred at a private family service, with a memorial in New York to follow.

Throughout his career, the diplomat has advised various heads of state, including current President Joe Biden, and he shared a Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating the Paris Treaty that ended the Vietnam War. However, the Vietnamese negotiator declined to accept the honor.

Kissinger was 100 years old. He was a Republican Party titan who remained prominent until the end of his life, thanks in large part to the production of several books on foreign events and the establishment of his geopolitical consulting firm in New York City in 1982.

Kissinger has received numerous tributes. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called Kissinger “endlessly generous with the wisdom gained over the course of an extraordinary life,” while George W Bush said the United States has “lost one of the most dependable” voices on foreign policy.

Some netizens, however, hailed his death by spotlighting the victims of his bombing activities. The celebrity diplomat’s peace prize in 1973 was widely contested once it was revealed that he had supported Nixon’s bombing of Cambodia in 1969.