CLASS NOTES
'Secretaries of State and the Practice of International Affairs'
Friday, May 19, 2006; Page A19
Elliott School of
International Affairs
 Which President signed the bill establishing the Smithsonian Institution? A. James K. Polk B. Zachary Taylor C. Franklin Pierce D. James Buchanan  
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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
