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Henry Kissinger: a life in pictures

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Henry Kissinger aged 11 in Germany, with his arm around his brother Walter, 10.

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In Washington in 1965.

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In the White House barber shop with barber Milton Pitts, 1972.

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Kissinger accepts food from China’s premier Zhou Enlai during a state banquet in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 1974.

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At the State department after hearing that he had won the Nobel Prize in October 1973

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President Richard Nixon listens to Kissinger aboard a flight to Belgium, 1974

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Kissinger with Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat in Cairo, 1974.

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Kissinger on an official visit to Amman, Jordan.

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Kissinger greets Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan at the state department in 1974.

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Kissinger with his wife Nancy on a flight between Egypt and Israel.

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Margaret Thatcher meets Kissinger, May 1983

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President Donald Trump meets Kissinger in the Oval Office on October 10, 2017

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Chinese President Xi Jinping meets Kissinger in Beijing on July 20, 2023