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Henry Kissinger, who was first, President Nixon's National Security Adviser, and then, the first foreign born Secretary of State, under Nixon and then, President Ford, remains one of the most divisive figures in modern American history. He played a prominent role in US foreign policy between 1969 and 1977; he won the Nobel peace prize in controversial circumstances. He is 92 now and some see him as a brilliant pragmatist and others as a brutal blinkered operator, who committed war crimes.

The historian, Niall Ferguson, who himself, divides opinion, has just published the first volume of an authorised biography of Kissinger. He came into the Newshour studio to discuss his first volume biography of Henry Kissinger - the Idealist

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