Defender of His People

Defender of His People

Henry Kissinger’s Oval Office address.

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"The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern."
– Henry Kissinger
from newly released Oval Office tapes
from the Nixon administration

He would have fit in well at State
In nineteen hundred thirty-eight.

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