How Henry Kissinger, Who Will Be Remembered by Friends This Week, Taught Me Lessons of Loyalty and Leadership
‘You are going to have to either keep your mouth shut or your pants on,’ he once told me. ‘You don’t have to do both.’
As Henry Kissinger’s friends gather Thursday for a memorial service for him, I will be summoning my own memories — including the day in 1970 when, as I trudged to the White House through blustery weather, I felt like a dead man walking. For several months, Kissinger, my boss, and President Nixon had been concerned with leaks of sensitive information pouring out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, chaired by Senator Fulbright.
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