Former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger passed away on Wednesday at 100.
As reported by Fox News, Kissinger died Wednesday at his home in Connecticut. He served as secretary of state and national security advisor under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerard Ford.
He also received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for taking part in negotiating the Paris Peace Accords in hopes of ending the Vietnam War.
Kissinger is a known proponent of realpolitik, a more practical approach to reaching objectives instead of moral ideals, and was commended with the secret diplomacy that eased U.S. relations with China.
He is also considered controversial due to allegations of committing war crimes for the bombing of Cambodia during the Vietnam War, supporting Pakistan’s genocide in Bangladesh, and approving the Argentine dictatorship’s “dirty war” against dissidents, CBS News reports.
Kissinger was born Heinz Alfred Kissinger in Germany on May 27, 1923. In 1938, his Jewish family escaped from the Nazis after they fled Germany and moved to New York.
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