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This two-part, three-hour biography, offers an incisive portrait of Henry Kissinger, the enigmatic powerbroker who serve | dG1fVjZ5OE1Ed3ltLVk
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00:01The average person thinks morality can be applied directly to the conduct of states.
00:07That is not always the case because sometimes statesmen have to choose among evils.
00:17He was a very ambitious person.
00:19A savvy, bureaucratic player.
00:22He stretched my patience, he stretched my nerves.
00:25The secrecy, the lying, the denial of reality.
00:29He was a master manipulator of the press.
00:32Whenever he told you, you knew something else was going on.
00:36Nobody before all sins has played such an important role in American foreign policy.
00:45Henry Kissinger.
00:46Henry Kissinger.
00:47Henry Kissinger is the author of the bestseller, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy.
00:51There was something about him that was different.
00:54Here's this Harvard professor, kind of a nerdish guy.
00:57He was a ubiquitous presence on television.
01:00But, of course, not as famous or as celebrated as he would become.
01:05Kissinger was a refugee from Nazi Germany.
01:08I have seen what can happen to a society that is based on hatred and strength and distrust.
01:16It generated a deep pessimism about the idea that norms and rules are going to protect you.
01:23For Kissinger, really, at the end of the day, the only thing that's going to protect you is power.
01:27We inherited a nightmare.
01:32We made up our minds from the beginning that we were going to try to disengage from Vietnam.
01:38The relationship between Nixon and Kissinger is fascinating.
01:42Nixon wants to bring foreign policy into the White House.
01:45In this, he finds a perfect partner in Henry Kissinger.
01:48Kissinger saw that there was a chance to claim power, despite the fact that he said that Nixon would be a disaster if he got elected president.
01:56There's a wariness they have of each other, but they each see quite a bit of themselves in the other.
02:01There's a joke that if Henry didn't yell at you, he didn't love you.
02:05He was a demanding perfectionist.
02:07We worked murderous hours.
02:09He was a mentor and a tormentor.
02:13He sought celebrity status, and he got celebrity status.
02:18Why the hell did they kiss your whistle? We know what I was trying to call him.
02:22He knew how to turn on the charm.
02:24I found him quite acquainted with the minute detail of all the dimensions.
02:31He was very effective, mostly because of how smart he was, and he had absolute certainty in his views.
02:38In his mind, he was advancing the strength of the United States because America was the last best hope of humanity.
02:54He was very effectively in the past and that he had never been a professional.
02:57He was currently on the map of the United States.
02:58So, the President, this is its own.
03:00I was the only one who wasайland.
03:01He was in a contestant, this one who was in the past.
03:03He was not the only one who was a vampire.
03:05He was a vampire.
03:06He got angry.
03:07He got angry.
03:08He was the only one who was a vampire.
03:09He went to heaven.
03:10He got angry.
03:12He was a vampire.
03:13He just got angry.
03:15He was the only one who was twisted.
03:16He was a vampire.
03:17So, he got angry.
03:19So, he did not get angry.
03:21That's the best life.
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