The uncertainty of administrational transition is greater in the Trump era and while it is not time to hit the bunker just yet, it wouldn’t hurt to have one nearby, writes Carl Bildt

WHEN Christopher Hitchens died from oesophageal cancer in December 2011, the world of letters lost one of its most compelling and provocative minds. 

Ryle Dwyer (US foreign policy under Kissinger cost thousands of lives, March 16) presents an interesting case for the prosecution against the former US secretary of state.

Ryle Dwyer looks at the legacy of destruction and chaos left behind by former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and the lessons it has for us today 

It’s nearly 40 years since Henry Kissinger held political office but he is still influential — and deeply divisive. Neil Robinson says Niall Ferguson’s first instalment of his biography won’t change anyone’s mind about him.

‘Poor old Germany,’ said Kissinger. ‘Too big for Europe, too small for the world.’ That maxim is still proving true today, writes Wolfgang Ischinger

With a grandfather who became the world's first billionaire, David Rockefeller has seen it all and has more ahead of him, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

"Poor Sepp Blatter," wrote John Cleese on Twitter last Friday. "Just a couple of hundred rotten apples, and he has to carry the can".

Richard Nixon had a great influence and his impact is still apparent in much of US public life, says Stanley Kutler.

US senator John McCain had a blunt message for demonstrators chanting for the arrest of Henry Kissinger at a Senate Armed Forces Committee hearing: “Get out of here, you low-life scum.”

Henry Kissinger once complained that when he wanted to talk to Europe, he never knew who to phone.

The US and Cuba are set for talks about normalisation, a move that comes after half a century of secret diplomatic dialogue and grandstanding, write William LeoGrande and Peter Kornbluh

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On the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, Ryle Dwyer reflects on the conflict in which his father was killed

Venue: Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Dublin

I’m not a fan of Henry Kissinger, but I agree with most of his article of March 5, about Ukraine, in the Washington Post. He wrote: “if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other — it should function as a bridge between them … Ukraine should not join NATO”.

THIS time it’s not the White House that’s embroiled in a sexual scandal, it’s the Elysée Palace. Location apart, there’s nothing to beat a full-dress political scandal except, that is, a full-undress one.

SATURDAY

Despite his Machiavellian morals, Henry Kissinger’s tale of the Asian nation’s newfound significance is a fascinating read, says TP O’Mahony.

Henry Kissinger is mulling over an offer from FIFA president Sepp Blatter to form part of a team investigating problems within the governing body.

AS the media were reporting here on the finding of the Saville Inquiry into the events in Derry on Bloody Sunday in January 1972, I was in the American Military Cemetery in Luxembourg, where 5,075 American soldiers and one American nurse were buried. All were victims of the Second World War.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is recovering after being taken to hospital in the South Korean capital with stomach pains, a hospital official said.

MEPs joined Europe's new president Herman Van Rompuy today in calling for a stronger EU response to global disasters.

FREE Education for Everyone, with the inapt acronym FEE, organised up to 1,000 student signatures in protest against the appointment of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern as a visiting professor at NUI Maynooth (NUIM). They called on the college authorities to suspend the appointment, at least until after the publication of the Mahon tribunal report.

The new post, President of the EU, could be just a glamour job.

BACK in the first week in January four prominent American political figures raised the need for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The issue was followed up this week in an article by Mikhail Gorbachev calling for urgent action.

Former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black’s lawyers are asking a judge to bar from his trial testimony that he used money belonging to the Hollinger International media empire to buy dinner for former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, refurbish a Rolls Royce and pay for his wife’s jogging suit.

Moving quietly and solemnly through the moonlight, mourners in Michigan waited for a chance to file past the casket of Gerald Ford, welcoming home the 38th US president for a final time.

LAST week we happened to mention an old hero, one Gore Vidal — essayist, novelist, screenwriter, former homeowner in west Cork — and used one of his many bons mots in this very space.

I a recent television programme, the former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, paid tribute to Pope John Paul II.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger today warned against an early withdrawal of US-led coalition forces from Iraq, saying such a move would bolster insurgents and terrorists.

THE question over whether or not the Colombia Three should be extradited continues to exercise minds. It could set a dangerous precedent.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has drawn parallels between the sliding scale of support in the Iraq and Vietnam wars.

IN a recent letter to the Irish Examiner, Jim Malo from Connecticut sought “specific information” on civilian torture by US authorities.

THE newly-declassified document (Irish Examiner, August 28) that shows Henry Kissinger telling Argentina’s Foreign Minister “if there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly”, just before the campaign against dissidents in 1976, should come as no great surprise.

A CONVERSATION between former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Argentina’s foreign minister gave the military junta the impression it had American backing for its notorious “dirty war”, it has been claimed.

A conversation between former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and Argentina’s foreign minister gave the military junta the impression it had American backing for its notorious “dirty war”, it has been claimed.

AS his US presidency unravelled, Richard Nixon was too “loaded” to take an urgent call during the Arab-Israeli war from British Prime Minister Edward Heath, according to transcripts of Dr Henry Kissinger’s phone calls.

Five days into the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, with the superpowers on the brink of confrontation, President Richard Nixon was too drunk to discuss the crisis with the British prime minister, according to newly released transcripts of tape recordings.

THIRTY-THREE years ago, Donald Rumsfeld, then a domestic policy official in the Nixon administration, became involved in foreign policy by volunteering to run the post Vietnam War reconstruction effort.

By Ryle Dwyer

SOME of the people who marched for peace last Saturday were probably relaxing in front of their televisions when RTÉ screened The Trials of Henry Kissinger on Sunday night.