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Niall Ferguson: Henry Kissinger Reappraised, with Andrew Roberts

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Kissinger's Relationship With Nelson Rockefeller

Kissinger had a very interesting relationship with the Kennedy family. He became involved in politics as an advisor to a Republican, playboy billionaire who wasn't terribly intellectually profound. Nelson Rockefeller admired Kissinger's intellect and saw that he was a pretty shrewd strategic thinker. And so rather than trouble himself with reading nuclear weapons in foreign policy, he hired Kissinger to be a foreign policy advisor.

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