Henry Kissinger's death.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Henry Kissinger's death. On Wednesday, Henry Kissinger, the long-time American diplomat and political scientist who was the only person to ever serve concurrently as both secretary of state and national security adviser, died at the age of 100. Kissinger, who was born in Bavaria in 1923 to a family of German Jews who fled to the United States during the rise of the Nazis, was one of the most polarizing figures in American history. He served under presidents Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, though he advised 12 presidents from both parties — more than a quarter of all men who have ever held the office.
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| 1:05.1 | Kissinger, a longtime American diplomat and the former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. He died, |
| 1:14.5 | and there's a lot of debate about his legacy. So we're going to jump in with some of that. |
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