Latest Henry Kissinger Stories
"Pace of Work Doesn't Now Match the Urgency of the Threat...Consequences of Inaction are Potentially Catastrophic" WASHINGTON, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, George Shultz, Bill Perry, Henry Kissinger and Sam Nunn called for urgent attention on the nuclear threat and outlined key areas for President Obama and world leaders to address. With the 4th anniversary of President Obama's Prague speech fast approaching in April, this non-partisan call appeared in a new op-ed...
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Tuesday, May 22, 2012, Layalina Productions will celebrate a decade of television diplomacy in the Middle East at its 10th Anniversary Gala, being held at the Newseum in Washington, DC. At the Gala, internationally acclaimed three time Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist Thomas L. Friedman and The Honorable Tara Sonenshine, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, will provide remarks and...
NEW YORK, April 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, will receive the inaugural "Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society" at The New Criterion's 30th Anniversary celebration in New York City at an intimate dinner gathering on Thursday, April 26. The award marks the 30th anniversary of The New Criterion, an influential monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, and gives homage to the...
The collapse of the US UK special relationship in August 1973 is the focus of the latest BBC Radio 4 program "˜Document', featuring University of Warwick Professor of International Security Richard J. Aldrich. The program examines a fascinating transcript of a conversation between President Nixon and Henry Kissinger which reveals the depth of the US antagonism towards Edward Heath's pro-European stance.The transcript reveals Henry Kissinger's frustration at the lack of support by the UK...
Documentary Tackles Nuclear Dangers, Features Shultz, Perry, Kissinger, and Nunn WASHINGTON, April 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nuclear Tipping Point, a documentary film on today's global nuclear dangers, will be screened tonight at the White House. The screening will be attended by the four featured in the documentary - former Secretaries of State George Shultz and Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of Defense William Perry and former Senator Sam Nunn - as well as film narrator and actor...
Special Remarks by Holbrooke, Kissinger and Volcker NEW YORK, May 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) will host its 35th Anniversary Gala and Award Dinner on May 28, 2009 in New York City. Ambassador John D. Negroponte will present the George F. Kennan Award for Distinguished Public Service to General David H. Petraeus. The NCAFP will also present its first annual Young Leaders in Advancing American Foreign Policy Award to John Delury,...
Ron Silver, a Tony-winning actor, political activist and free-speech advocate, has died of cancer at his home in New York, his family said. He was 62. Silver -- whose screen credits included Reversal of Fortune and Ali -- died of esophageal cancer two years following his diagnosis with the disease, his brother Mitchell told The New York Times. Silver played Henry Kissinger in the 1995 TV movie Kissinger and Nixon and appeared frequently in series including Rhoda and The West Wing. He...
Highest Award Presented by the National Defense University Foundation WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Tonight, The National Defense University Foundation will present the 2008 American Patriot Award to The Honorable Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Former Secretary of State, at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. Tribute speakers are coming out in force to honor Dr. Kissinger, and include The Honorable Zbigniew Brzezinski,...
By Jasper, William F Perhaps, amidst the non-stop glowing reportage on China's 17 days of Olympic glory, you happened to catch (buried in back section of the newspaper - or some equally remote web posting) a story about Wu Dianyuan and Wang Xiuying. The two frail, old widows in their late 70s were arrested and face possible prison time in China's notorious penal system. Their crime? Applying for a legal permit to protest peacefully in the officially designated protest area near the Olympic...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says the United States should begin direct negotiations with Iran over its nuclear enrichment program. Kissinger, speaking Monday at George Washington University along with four other former U.S. State Department secretaries, said the next president should initiate high-level discussions with Iran "without conditions," ABC News reported. The opinion of the former secretary of state for Republican presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford...
