95. Kissinger of Death
Pick Me Up, I'm Scared.
Madeline Pendleton and David Roberts
4.8 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 162 minutes
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Summary
This week, Madeline and David talk about Henry Kissinger, international diplomacy, and blood lust!
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SOURCES:
- https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/kissinger-henry-a
- https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/arab-israeli-war-1973
- Henry Kissinger, White House Years, quoted in Mosely “The Search for Purpose”
- Kissinger A World Restored
- Barry Gewen, “Kissinger’s Moral Example” The National Interest, 4/17/2017.
- https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/30320-document-71-white-house-telcon-summary-kissinger-conveying- nixon-order-commence
- https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/virtuallibrary/documents/haldeman-diaries/37-hrhd-journal-vol01-19690318.pdf
- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/05/09/88992642.html?pageNumber=1
- https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/30324-document-75-white-house-telcon-kissinger-and-general-alexander-m-haig-jr-december-9
- https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/henry-kissinger-cambodia-bombing-survivors/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Kissinger
- https://etan.org/news/kissinger/ask.htm
- https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/media_mentions/declassified_files_outline_us_support_for_1965_indonesia_massacre.pdf
- Christopher Hitchens The Trial of Henry Kissinger Ch. 8.
- https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB62/doc4.pdf
- Richard Wright, The Color Curtain: A Report on the Bandung Conference. 1956. 134-35.
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Strategic-Arms-Limitation-Talks
- https://msfs.georgetown.edu/timeline/henry-kissinger-appointed-professor/
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/china-kissinger/
- https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-features/celebrating-henry-kissinger-6967416/
- https://www.politico.com/blogs/democratic-debate-milwaukee-2016/2016/02/hillary-clinton-henry-kissinger-219183
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/us/politics/kissinger-biden-trump-nixon-presidents.html
- Leandro Morgenfeld, “Kissinger in Argentina” Jacobin, 2023.
- https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB185/19760326%20Secretary%20of%20Stet%20Kissinger%20Chariman%20apgesl%201-39%20-%20full.pdf
- https://www.henryakissinger.com/
- https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1973/kissinger/biographical/
- https://www.biography.com/political-figures/henry-kissinger
- https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/chile-dictatorship-victim-toll-bumped-to-40-018-1.998542
- https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile-cold-war-henry-kissinger-indonesia-southern-cone-vietnam/2023-11-29/henry
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/01/bangladesh-kissinger-henry-genocide-pakistan-east-legacy/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/01/opinion/henry-kissinger-foreign-policy-democracy.html
- https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/01/henry-kissinger-declassified-obituary/71759798007/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/us/henry-kissinger-dead.html
- https://responsiblestatecraft.org/henry-kissinger-legacy/
- https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2004/12/kissinger-declassified
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/30/henry-kissinger-chile-argentina-south-america
- https://jacobin.com/2023/11/henry-kissinger-cold-war-foreign-policy
- https://jacobin.com/2023/11/kissinger-in-cyprus
- https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/may/25/henry-kissinger-100-strategic-genius-or-damaging-diplomacy-held-back-africa
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Pick Me Up, I'm scared. The podcast. I'm your host, Madeline. And I'm your co-host, David, currently looking up Henry Kissinger's birth chart. Yes. Do you learn anything interesting yet? Not yet. We'll save that. Okay. you just hop on in. I'll do the housekeeping. |
| 0:37.8 | We'll get to that. |
| 0:38.7 | The first thing on housekeeping, I would like to inform you all of our holiday schedule. |
| 0:44.6 | So we will be having a normal episode released next week. |
| 0:49.9 | However, oh, and you know what, the week after that. |
| 0:53.2 | So the next two weeks are going to be normal. |
| 0:55.0 | However, there will not be an episode hitting on the 26th or the second because of holiday |
| 1:00.6 | shenanigans. |
| 1:01.8 | So that's what you can expect for some upcoming episodes. |
| 1:06.8 | Another thing I would like to point out is we are still uploading bonus content over |
| 1:09.8 | on our Patreon. Patreon.com slash pick me up I'm scared. |
| 1:13.3 | It is $3 a month and you will get at least two bonus episodes per month. |
| 1:17.5 | We just uploaded a bonus that is a supplementary episode to the topic we're talking about |
| 1:23.2 | today, which I'll get to in a second. |
| 1:27.7 | And then the last thing also is the book pre-order is still going strong. |
| 1:31.5 | The book comes out January 14th. |
| 1:34.2 | And earlier this week, I actually recorded the audiobook. |
| 1:39.3 | Oh, how was that? |
| 1:40.6 | It was really, really interesting. |
| 1:42.1 | And it was really overwhelming. |
| 1:43.9 | And I cried a lot. And I had to |
| 1:45.6 | stop because I couldn't talk because I was crying. From the content of your book? Yeah, from the content of the |
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