Former diplomat and presidential adviser Henry Kissinger marks his 100th birthday on Saturday (May 27), outlasting many of his political contemporaries who guided the United States through one of its most tumultuous periods including the presidency of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War. Born in Germany on M
Former diplomat and presidential adviser Henry Kissinger marks his 100th birthday on Saturday , outlasting many of his political contemporaries who guided the United States through one of its most tumultuous periods including the presidency of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War.
"Not only has he outlived most of his peers, eminent detractors and students, but he has also remained indefatigably active throughout his 90s," he said. He has provided advice to Republican and Democratic presidents, including the White House during the Trump administration, while maintaining an international consulting business through which he delivers speeches in the German accent he has not lost since fleeing the Nazi regime with his family when he was a teenager.
Kissinger additionally was accused of orchestrating the expansion of the conflict into Laos and Cambodia, enabling the rise of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime that killed an estimated 2 million Cambodians.
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