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A Masterclass In History from Dr. Henry Kissinger

The Secrets of Statecraft

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Do You Feel the Weight of History on Your Shoulders?

When you were negotiating the end of the venon war m with le docto, did you feel the weight of history on your shoulders? How much did you worry about what future generations would think about your efforts? How you would be portrayed in history and so on. With respect to non wore, i thought it waswas a circumstance in which the united states on which the safety of the world depended could not simply act as if it were an television programe that you could turn off. And marc ous and resenen of canistanand elsewhere, the turning off these enterprises is extraordinarily complex. So that was really the pansing conviction that it had to end what we considered honour

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