Henry Alfred Kissinger
- He served as United States secretary of state and national security advisor in the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
- He pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union, orchestrated an opening of relations with China, engaged in "shuttle diplomacy" in the Middle East to end the Yom Kippur War, and negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, which ended American involvement in the Vietnam War. For the latter, he was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace ....
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