Henry Kissinger: Appalling Bigotry in Nixon White House

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A press release from the American Jewish Committee tells us nothing (or at least not much) we didn’t know already about Richard Nixon — but the anti-Semitic remark attributed to Henry “Butcher of Cambodia” Kissinger (who’s Jewish himself) knocked us on our butts: (more…)

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Henry Kissinger


 
 

Claims to fame: U.S. Secretary of State under Nixon & Ford (1973-77); divorcé; skirt-chaser; scary guy

Nickname: Butcher of Cambodia

Moral apex: Impossible to know, but we vote for his role in the slaughter of untold millions of Southeast Asians. Oops, sorry, no sex there. So, for our immediate purposes, let’s leave it at a 1964 divorce and a 1974 re-marriage, peppered with lots of screwing around.

Three little words: Jill St. John.

Suggested Torah reading for Mr. Kissinger:

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

— Proverbs 10:11
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