enry Kissinger, U.S. national security adviser and later secretary of state at the height of the Vietnam War, died Nov. 29, 2023, at the age of 100. His polarizing career saw him advise every president from John F. Kennedy to Joe Biden, with achievements that included masterminding a new relationship with communist China, softening the Cold War friction with the Soviet Union through a diplomatic policy called détente, and eventually negotiating the withdrawal
