Former US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger celebrated his 100th birthday Saturday. Kissinger, who served in the Nixon and Ford administrations, is most noted for negotiating a ceasefire in the Vietnam War and engineering the US opening of relations with communist China. After his service, he became a widely sought-after voice on foreign affairs.
Kissinger’s legacy has also been marked with controversy, including his role in the US bombing of Cambodia, support for the Argentinian military junta during the ‘Dirty War’, and support for Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 coup in Chile.
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