He initiated the Paris talks that ultimately provided a face-saving means to get the United States out of war in Vietnam.
“No doubt my vanity was piqued,” Kissinger later wrote of his expanding influence during Watergate.
Kissinger called women “a diversion, a hobby.” Isaacson wrote that Hollywood executives were eager to set him up with starlets, whom Kissinger squired to premieres and showy restaurants.
That “incursion,” as Nixon and Kissinger called it, was blamed by some for contributing to Cambodia’s fall into the hands of Khmer Rouge insurgents.
But records from the Nixon era, released over the years, brought with them revelations that sometimes cast him in a harsh light.
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Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, — Kissinger, Nixon, “, ” Kissinger, ”, Walter Isaacson, “ Kissinger, Kissinger, ” Isaacson, starlets, Kissinger squired, Jill St, John, Shirley MacLaine, Marlo Thomas, Candice Bergen, Liv Ullmann
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WASHINGTON, Hollywood, Playboy, Newsweek, National Security Council, Republican, Democratic
Locations:
United States, China, Vietnam, Soviet Union, White, Cambodia, South Vietnam, Khmer, Southeast Asia, Latin America