This is the best of Newt's World, coming up my interview with Dr. Henry Kissinger.

On this episode of Newt's World, I am honored and delighted to have an old friend, a mentor.

Somebody I've learned from for almost I guess half a century. Dr. Henry Kissinger,

he is one of the most remarkable people in modern America. At 99 he has written a new book

which I recommend to everyone called Leadership, six studies in world strategy,

and it's a sign of his extraordinary life that each of the leaders is somebody he's known personally.

Henry, thank you very much for joining me on Newt's World. You and I have known each other for many

decades and I have expected your thinking and considered you a strategic thinker and that it's

what the country importantly needs. So I'm happy to be here with you.

I want to start at a personal level before we get to the book which as you know,

I've written a review of as a newsletter and urged everyone to look at because it's so

remarkable. But first I want to establish a couple things. When you and your family fled Germany

to escape the Nazi regime, you were very young. Did you have any notion that you'd have an

extraordinary life like this? But when we left Germany, I had just turned 15. We were living in

not Germany in which being Jewish, we had no legal rights and Hitler youth could beat me up

in the streets if that was their idea, which occasionally happened. So when I came to America,

I had no idea that someday I might be secretary of state and advisor to president and senior leaders of

the Congress. But within the first months, I experienced that I was living in a country of democracy

and in high school I wrote and I say that sometimes I miss people with whom I grew up.

But when I defected in America, I can walk on the street with my head erect. Then it was

an experience of my life to get together. You became a naturalized citizen in 1943,

which by the way is the year I was born. And then you joined the army and received a bronze star

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