Kissinger Out of Hospital After Heart Attack
Former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry A. Kissinger was released from the hospital on Monday after having a heart attack last week.
Kissinger, 77, who served as secretary of State under Presidents Nixon and Ford, suffered what doctors called a “limited heart attack” and was admitted to the hospital on Oct. 25.
The German-born Kissinger shaped policies behind major world events of the 1970s, including the Vietnam peace agreement, the reopening of U.S.-Chinese relations, growing contact between Israel and the Arab world and U.S.-Soviet arms control talks.
His era as high-powered architect of U.S. foreign policy waned with the decline of Nixon in the Watergate scandal, although he has continued to be an independent diplomatic mover and shaker.
Kissinger shared the Nobel Peace Prize with North Vietnam’s Le Duc Tho for his work on the Paris peace accords reached in 1973.
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