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Kissinger’s Triumphs and Mistakes Offer Lessons

And how we can apply them to China and Gaza today.

His policies toward civilians in the Vietnam War set a template that would be followed by the U.S. for decades.

He thought nothing of the democratic aspirations of most people on this planet, Americans more or less included.

In his decades in politics, the statesman advised many presidents. Here are some of their thoughts from over the years, in their own words.

In 1987, “Nixon in China” meditated on what was then recent history, depicting Kissinger as a smooth diplomat with a brutal side.