Henry Kissinger Is Dead at 100; Shaped Nation’s Cold War History

Henry A. Kissinger, the scholar-turned-diplomat who engineered the United States’ opening to China, negotiated its exit from Vietnam, and used cunning, ambition and intellect to remake American power relationships with the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, sometimes trampling on democratic values to do so, died on Wednesday, according to a statement that was posted to his official website. He was 100.

He died at his home in Connecticut.

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Michael T. Kaufman, a former correspondent and editor for The Times who died in 2010, contributed reporting.