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To: FaultLine who wrote (59995)	12/5/2002 11:55:21 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

for some reason, I've always admired Henry. Hey, I always figured if an ugly guy like Henry could make it with all of the pretty ladies, there was a chance for me!

To: FaultLine who wrote (59995)	12/5/2002 1:58:20 PM
From: LLLefty	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>>>Actually, for some reason, I've always admired Henry.<<< So do most of the few--and they were few--who worked closely with Kissinger when he was with Nixon. The fates brought me into the margins during two of K's triumphs: rapprochement with China and the most unusual diplomatic shuttles that lasted several months between Cairo-Damascus and Jerusalem after the 1973 war. Yes, indeed, K was secretive. He worked with a handful--four of five good ones he selected himself--and cut out the rest of State and the NSC. Otherwise, internal opponents and self-important leakers would have sought to derail his objectives which, if we look back, served well the national interest: restoration of relations with China and a face-saving 1973 conclusion for Sadat that led to peace between Israel and Egypt. I could bore you with anecdote after anecdote from those years but I think Safire summed it up well enough in his column. I don't have it in front of me but I think he said something like that K is a national treasure. I've been saying that for years and it drive conventionally-minded friends nuts. No, he wasn't a "team player" back in those days. But it was the only way to achieve a laudable goal. Sometimes the means justify the ends. I wish the Ivies would turn out a few more K's instead of wasting a slot, for example, on George II.