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(JTA) — Henry Kissinger, the first Jewish secretary of state and the controversial mastermind of American foreign policy in the 1970s — orchestrating the U.S. opening to China, negotiating the end of the conflict in Vietnam and helping ease tensions with the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War — has died. Kissinger […]

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Kissinger developed a conservative outlook that would dominate his decision-making in government

The most powerful secretary of state of the postwar era, he was both celebrated and reviled. His complicated legacy still resonates in relations with China,...

“Few people ... have had a hand in as much death and destruction, as much human suffering, in so many places around the world as Henry Kissinger.”

Henry Kissinger was the Holocaust survivor and Harvard professor who became the archetypal U.S. diplomat, master political manipulator and pop culture icon.

WASHINGTON--Henry Kissinger, a controversial Nobel Peace Prize winner and diplomatic powerhouse whose service under two presidents left an indelible mark on U.S. foreign policy, died on Wednesday at age 100, according to his geopolitical consulting firm Kissinger Associates Inc.

Few diplomats have been both celebrated and reviled with such passion as Henry Kissinger.

Diplomat Henry Kissinger became U.S. secretary of state in 1973, the same year he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Read about his education, wife, legacy, and more.