Henry Alfred Kissinger né Heinz May 27 1923 November 29 2023 was a Germanborn American politician diplomat political scientist and geopolitical consultant who served as United States secretary of state and national security advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford Kissinger played a prominent role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977 pioneering the policy of détente with the Soviet Union orchestrating an opening of relations with the Peoples Republic of China engaging in what became known as shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East to end the Yom Kippur War and negotiating the Paris Peace Accords which ended American involvement in the Vietnam War After leaving government he formed Kissinger Associates an international geopolitical consulting firm Kissinger wrote over a dozen books on diplomatic history and international relations Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Kissinger licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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