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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who turned 100 years old earlier this year, passed away at his Connecticut residence on Wednesday, according to a Kissinger Associates, Inc. press release.
Kissinger served as secretary of state during a portion of Republican President Richard Nixon's White House tenure and then under President Gerald Ford after Nixon resigned.
Kissinger was born in Germany in 1923, but his Jewish family immigrated to the U.S. in 1938, according to history.state.gov, which noted that Kissinger's name, which had been Heinz, was switched to Henry. "During World War II, Kissinger became a naturalized citizen and served in the U.S. Army as a German interpreter," the government website notes.
"As a refugee from Nazi Germany, he had lost 13 family members and countless friends to the Holocaust. He returned to his native Germany as an American soldier, participating in the liberation of the Ahlem concentration camp near Hannover," Kissinger's son David wrote of his father in a Washington Post piece posted earlier this year.
"He has an unquenchable curiosity that keeps him dynamically engaged with the world. His mind is a heat-seeking weapon that identifies and grapples with the existential challenges of the day. In the 1950s, the issue was the rise of nuclear weapons and their threat to humanity. About five years ago, as a promising young man of 95, my father became obsessed with the philosophical and practical implications of artificial intelligence," David Kissinger wrote.
GOP Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida described Kissinger as "a patriot who lived a life of great consequence."
Republican Rep. Greg Murphy of North Carolina described Kissinger as "a man of keen insight and sage advice; the gold standard for foreign policy."
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper channeled his inner Gerald Ford upon the media's declaration that former Vice President Joe Biden is the president-elect — declaring America's "long national nightmare is over."
"What a moment in history. We have all been waiting on the edges of our seats since Tuesday. It is the end, the end of a tumultuous presidency— a time of some accomplishments, no question, a time when many Americans throughout the country and in shuttered steel-towns and in rural America, they felt for the first time they felt heard, which is important," Tapper began.
"But it has also been a time of extreme divisions, many of the divisions caused and exacerbated by President Trump himself," Tapper explained.
"It's been a time of several significant and utterly avoidable failures, and most tragically, of course, the unwillingness to respect facts and science and do everything that could be done to save lives during a pandemic," Tapper continued. "It has been a time where truth and fact were treated with disdain. It was a time of cruelty, where official inhumanity, such as child separation, became the official, shameful policy of the United States."
"But now, the Trump presidency is coming to an end. To an end. With so many squandered opportunities and ruined potential, but also an era of just plain meanness," Tapper went on to say.
"It must be said to paraphrase President Ford: For tens of millions of our fellow Americans, their long national nightmare is over," Tapper said.
Upon taking the presidential oath of office in August 1974, Ford — who was not elected president, but assumed the high office after Richard Nixon resigned — sought to encourage Americans that the Watergate Scandal that had besmirched Nixon's White House was finally over.
"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over," Ford said.
"Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy," Ford continued. "As we bind up the internal wounds of Watergate, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate."