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Niall Ferguson: Henry Kissinger Reappraised, with Andrew Roberts

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The Groture Marx-Type Line in Henry Kissinger's Speech

Kissinger's humor is derived from a kind of American Jewish, New York Jewish humor that the Marx brothers were part of. He heard these on radio when he first arrived in the United States. The 1968 generation really didn't like the Marx brothers at all. Things that were funny if you'd been in World War II were not at all funny if you were protesting against the bombing of Cambodia.

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