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Niall Ferguson: Henry Kissinger Reappraised, with Andrew Roberts

Intelligence Squared

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The Importance of Chance

After the war, Kissinger applied to all the top universities. They all reject him except for Harvard. He met Kramer in a training camp and was plucked out into counter-intelligence by luck. The mentors who shaped his life were Eliot, Rockefeller; they encouraged him to go in the directions that he took.

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