Despite months of rumors that Hillary Clinton had been seeking his endorsement, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger announced Friday that he does not plan to endorse anyone in the 2016 presidential race.
In a joint statement provided to NBC News Producer Frank Thorp, Kissinger and former Labor Secretary George Schultz said they were staying above the political fray in the spirit of bipartisanship.
“We are not making any endorsement in the current presidential election,” the statement reads. “We are dedicated to fostering a bipartisan foreign policy, and we will devote ourselves to this effort now and after the election.”
No great loss, he talks like a furriner, and this is Murika…
He’s been so discredited, I’m almost surprised anyone would care who he endorses.
Probably better for Hillary if he stays away…
Stephen Colbert’s one mistake: The monstrous Henry Kissinger shouldn’t get to laugh his sins away
Henry Kissinger is not a cute pop-culture prop. He’s got more blood on his hands than perhaps any other American
Fuck Henry Kissinger:
Nixon’s sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks was confirmed by transcripts of FBI wiretaps. On November 2, 1968, LBJ received an FBI report saying Chernnault told the South Vietnamese ambassador that "she had received a message from her boss: saying the Vietnamese should “hold on, we are gonna win.”
As Will confirms, Vietnamese did “hold on,” the war proceeded and Nixon did win, changing forever the face of American politics----with the shadow of treason permanently embedded in its DNA.
The treason came in 1968 as the Vietnam War reached a critical turning point. President Lyndon Johnson was desperate for a truce between North and South Vietnam.
LBJ had an ulterior motive: his Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, was in a tight presidential race against Richard Nixon. With demonstrators in the streets, Humphrey desperately needed a cease-fire to get him into the White House.
Johnson had it all but wrapped it. With a combination of gentle and iron-fisted persuasion, he forced the leaders of South Vietnam into an all-but-final agreement with the North. A cease-fire was imminent, and Humphrey’s election seemed assured.
But at the last minute, the South Vietnamese pulled out. LBJ suspected Nixon had intervened to stop them from signing a peace treaty.
In the Price of Power (1983), Seymour Hersh revealed Henry Kissinger—then Johnson’s advisor on Vietnam peace talks—secretly alerted Nixon’s staff that a truce was imminent.
According to Hersh, Nixon “was able to get a series of messages to the Thieu government [of South Vietnam] making it clear that a Nixon presidency would have different views on peace negotiations.”
Johnson was livid. He even called the Republican Senate Minority Leader, Everett Dirksen, to complain that “they oughtn’t be doing this. This is treason.”
“I know,” was Dirksen’s feeble reply.