Henry Kissinger was the negotiator for the Vietnam War with the Vietnamese Le Duc Tho. Kissinger was also known for being an American scholar, Nobel laureate, Statesman, and the Secretary of the State under Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford.

Kissinger was born in Fürth, Germany in 1923. He came to the United States in 1938 with his parents and later graduated from Harvard University.

Kissinger wrote many books. In his first book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (1957), Kissinger advocated flexibility in U.S. foreign military activities; it is regarded as a primary source book in American foreign policy. Due to his abilities in foreign policy issues, he served as an occasional foreign-policy adviser to Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson.

At the end of the Vietnam war, he represented the United States in negotiating toward the settlement of the war with the Viet-side diplomat Le Duc Tho. In January 1973, Kissinger's efforts finally resulted in an agreement establishing a cease-fire in the Vietnam War, called the Paris Peace Accords. For this achievement, he shared the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize with Le Duc Tho.

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