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Defender of His People

Henry Kissinger's Oval Office address.

Calvin Trillin

December 16, 2010

"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.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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