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'Secretaries of State and the Practice of International Affairs'

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By Karen DeYoung

Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 19, 2006

Elliott School of

International Affairs

George Washington

University

Spring 2006,

Thursdays, 5:10-7 p.m.

Henry A. Kissinger, evil incarnate to many in an earlier generation of college students, provokes little outrage in the current crop of future leaders. When a group of graduate students recently considered his record as secretary of state during the Nixon and Ford administrations, they used words such as: "Gravel-voiced . . . intellectual . . . stylish . . . bureaucratic master . . . lone cowboy . . . sneaky . . . ruthless . . . pompous."

Pioneer of detente with the Soviet Union and China, advocate of withdrawal from Vietnam after a "decent interval," winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Middle East negotiator and alleged war criminal as the architect of President Richard M. Nixon's controversial policy in Chile, Kissinger was also a cultural icon. Back then, he was known for squiring photogenic young women around Washington and for providing material for late-night comics as well as antiwar demonstrators. John Belushi regularly impersonated Kissinger on "Saturday Night Live" (with Dan Aykroyd as Nixon); Monty Python wrote a song about him:

Henry Kissinger

How I'm missing yer

You're the doctor of my dreams

With your crinkly hair and your glassy stare

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