Henry Kissinger's Death Met With Celebrations, Tributes
Foreign Policy,World,Henry Kissinger,Richard Nixon,Cold War
The death of Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state and one of most divisive political figures in U.S. history, brought a mixture of tributes and contempt for his legacy from people around the world.
Kissinger, who was 100, died at his home in Connecticut, his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates Inc., confirmed. A public memorial service will be held in New York at a date yet to be announced.
The influential, but controversial, adviser was a key White House figure during the Richard Nixon administration, and played a pivotal role in bringing a ceasefire in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, boosting diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China, and calming hostilities with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for negotiating the Paris treaty, which ended the Vietnam war, along with North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho.
