Henry Kissinger by aLex Cruz

Full Name: Henry Alfred Kissinger
D.O.B.: May 27, 1923
Place: Fuerth, Germany
Wife: Ann Fleischer (1949-1964) and Nancy Maginnes
Kids: Elizabeth and David
Education: Harvard

Career: college professor, Secretary of state, assistant to the president for National Security Affairs

Fun Facts:

1. His real name is Heinz Alfred Kissinger
2. in 1973 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Henry Kissinger, from 1973-1977 he was the 56th Secretary of State. This was during Nixon’s and Ford’s presidencies. Also during these presidencies he was Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 1969 to 1975. Kissinger's specialty is foreign policy, being a national security adviser and secretary of state. He is a German Jewish immigrant from Nazi Germany during World War II. As Nixon's National security adviser, Kissinger made the power of the White House be concentrated and made secret negations with North Vietnam, the USSR and China. He negotiated to end direct US involvement in Vietnam in 1973 and it ended with the Paris agreements.
He was named the most admirable man in America in 1972 and 1973 in the Gallup poll. He got a Noble Peace prize for his successful attempts to negotiate the Paris accords that ended US involvement in Vietnam. Many journalists called him a "genius" and "smartest guy around" after the secret trip he took in order to make preparations for Nixon's visit to China in 1972.
Kissinger's reputation took a fall after the Watergate scandal. It was discovered that he ordered the FBI to tap the phones of the Democratic parties headquarters, after he had denied that fact. Another thing that faded his reputation was his attempt to block Chile's President Salvador Allende Gossens from gaining power in 1970.
Some of Kissinger's Foreign policy successes failed in 1975and 1976. The communists' won Vietnam and that destroyed the Paris peace accords. By 1977 he had fully lost control of American Foreign Policy, but nobody ever dominated this like he did from 1969 to 1974.