Henry Kissinger was a trusted confidant to President Nixon until the bitter, bizarre end

apnews ^ | 11/29/2023 | NANCY BENAC

[ChicagoConservative27]

WASHINGTON (AP) — All these years later, the scene still is almost too bizarre to imagine: a tearful president and his perplexed aide, neither very religious, kneeling in prayer on the floor of a White House bedroom in the waning hours of a shattered presidency.

Until the embittered end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few of a distrusting Richard Nixon. That trust, combined with Kissinger’s intellectual heft and deft manipulation of power, made him a pivotal player in a tense period in American history, a giant of U.S. foreign policy and a fixture in international relations for decades to come.

The German-born diplomat who got the U.S. out of Vietnam after bloody, costly years of delay and into China in a sudden burst of secret diplomacy died Wednesday. He was 100.

[ChicagoConservative27]

I will take Nixon over him any day.

[Jim W N]

Today both would have been called RINOs.

[nwrep]

Nixon: Earth Day, OSHA, EPA, Affirmative Action, Price Controls, China. Oh yeah.

[x]

How is any of that more bizarre than what we’re going through now?

[rlmorel]

100%.

[stylin19a]

The German-born diplomat who got the U.S. out of Vietnam

Huh ? Every one knows it was John F'n Kerry that got us out of VN (sarcasm off)

Actually the RATs stopped funding for the war and the Christmas bombing gave North VN a Holy Crap moment.

[Tell It Right]

February 1972 -- Nixon goes to Communist China and visits Mao. Kissinger was a major player in it.

And America's been hurting ever since.

[Dr. Sivana]

Don’t forget Blackmun.

[gundog]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ABeGhyAD_DM&pp=ygUdTW9udHkgcHl0aG9uLCBoZW5yeSBraXNzaW5nZXI%3D

[dljordan]

He was responsible for Klaus Schwab and the WEF.

[bigdaddy45]

RINOs? Nixon was practically a progressive Dem

[Nifster]

Because they were

Better than Puddin Brain. So what?

[Rappini]

I think now that Kissinger is dead, the truth will be coming out on what kind of guy he really was, in his early days.

[norsky]

Well, I guess, politics has strange bedfellows and kids in that group

[yuleeyahoo]

Klaus’s mentor.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yes, Nixon was a a true patriot and a fierce anti communist, perfect for the tense Cold War days. He was not especially conservative, nor was he really known as such.

[nwrep]

That much is true.