S20E16: "Washington's Greatest Swinger" Henry Kissinger
Trashy Divorces
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🗓️ 3 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
When the powerful and influential pass, we always like to take a look at their personal stories, and wow is Henry Kissinger's time in the limelight as Secretary of State to Richard Nixon a shocking document of weirdness. Hailed as "Washington's Greatest Swinger" (which meant something a bit more tame than it does these days), the bookish foreign policy expert became an unlikely sex symbol during a time of real tumult. Stacie has the unexpected, but apparently true, story.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody and welcome to trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:07.5 | Alicia here, friends, and Stacey, my cohort in Trash Candy. |
| 0:11.5 | It's been quite a week. |
| 0:13.4 | It has. |
| 0:14.1 | Former Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor passed away. |
| 0:18.0 | Pog's lead singer, Shane McGowan passed away, and... |
| 0:21.6 | And former Secretary of State, architect of various secret wars and coups and all-around shady |
| 0:27.9 | character on the world stage, Henry Kissinger also died on November 29th. |
| 0:33.6 | The man advised every president since Nixon as well, and the obituaries and remembrances |
| 0:39.0 | available in the media are absolutely legion. |
| 0:42.4 | I will let smarter people than I navigate all of that. |
| 0:46.5 | What a lot of people don't know or don't remember is that Henry Kissinger, oddly enough, |
| 0:52.1 | was quite the man about town during his years in D.C. |
| 0:56.0 | And was linked with a who's who of notable women in those days. |
| 0:59.5 | It's actually kind of jarring. |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah, you don't think of Henry Kissinger, ladies' man. |
| 1:04.3 | You do not. |
| 1:05.2 | Well, he's actually kind of terrible as a ladies' man. |
| 1:09.4 | But before we get to that story, the softer side of Kissinger, the needier side, I don't know. |
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