Henry Kissinger, an American diplomat, political scientist, geopolitical consultant, and politician has passed away and in this write-up, we will discuss details of Henry Kissinger Age, height and weight.
Who is Henry Kissinger?
Henry Kissinger was a Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family back in 1938. Settling in the United States, he excelled academically and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1950, where he studied under William Yandell Elliott.
From 1956 to 1958, Henry Kissinger worked for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund as director of its Special Studies Project. He served as the director of the Harvard Defense Studies Program between 1958 and 1971. In 1958, he also co-founded the Center for International Affairs with Robert R. Bowie where he served as its associate director. Outside of academia, he served as a consultant to several government agencies and think tanks, including the Operations Research Office, the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Department of State, and the RAND Corporation.
Keen to have a greater influence on U.S. foreign policy, Henry Kissinger became foreign policy advisor to the presidential campaigns of Nelson Rockefeller, supporting his bids for the Republican nomination in 1960, 1964, and 1968. Kissinger first met Richard Nixon at a party hosted by Clare Boothe Luce in 1967, saying that he found him more “thoughtful” than he expected.
During the Republican primaries in 1968, Kissinger again served as the foreign policy adviser to Rockefeller and in July 1968 called Nixon “the most dangerous of all the men running to have as president”.
Initially upset when Nixon won the Republican nomination, the ambitious Kissinger soon changed his mind about Nixon and contacted a Nixon campaign aide, Richard Allen, to state he was willing to do anything to help Nixon win.
After Nixon became president in January 1969, Kissinger was appointed as National Security Advisor. By this time, he was arguably “one of the most important theorists about foreign policy ever to be produced by the United States of America”, according to his official biographer Niall Ferguson.
From 1995 to 2001, Kissinger served on the board of directors for Freeport-McMoRan, a multinational copper and gold producer with significant mining and milling operations in Papua, Indonesia.
In February 2000, then-president of Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid appointed Kissinger as a political advisor. He also served as an honorary advisor to the United States-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce.
Kissinger served as the 22nd Chancellor of the College of William and Mary from 2000 to 2005. He was preceded by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and succeeded by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The College of William & Mary also own a painted portrait of Kissinger that was painted by Ned Bittinger.
From 2000 to 2006, Kissinger served as chairman of the board of trustees of Eisenhower Fellowships. In 2006, upon his departure from Eisenhower Fellowships, he received the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service.
Henry Kissinger Age, how old was he?
Henry Kissinger was 100 years old before his death. He was born on May 27, 1923 in Fürth, Weimar Republic which is now called Germany. He died on November 29, 2023 in Kent, Connecticut, United States of America.
Henry Kissinger Height and weight
Before his death, Henry Kissinger’s height was Height. 5′ 8″ (1.73 m) tall while the exact details of Henry Kinssinger’s weight remains unknown.
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