Kissinger looks back
At Harvard and in Washington, as a statesman, professor, and author, Henry Kissinger ’50, A.M. ’52, Ph.D. ’54, has spent more than half a century thinking about and shaping foreign policy. At Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, the former secretary of state reflected on the art of statecraft — what he called the “hobby that became my profession.” “I’ve spent all my life thinking about these problems,” said Kissinger, who served during the Nixon and Ford administrations and who oversaw the end of the Vietnam War, the opening up of China, and America’s Cold War policy of détente with the Soviet Union. But that doesn’t mean he has all the answers now, as he told the audience in a discussion of his life’s work. “I know more now, and I probably have a more balanced and slightly more self-confident view,” he said. But “when you are in office, you have to act under pressure,...