dr. kissinger about this. he said yes if i had known now what i knew then about the documents i could never have written a dissertation using

dr. kissinger about this. he said, yes, if i had known now what know about the documents, i could never have written my dissertation using just documents. i now realize that documents have to be supplemented by talking to the real people. but kissinger was a true believer that it was people, that narrative tale told through people is important. he was once on a shuttle mission in 1974 between syria and israel, shuttling back and forth, and he said to people on his plane, when i was a professor i thought great forces shaped history. but now i see it up close, i see the importance of real people in the process. and so to me, it was looking at the personality of a kissinger, his detachment from the moral strands that underlie american foreign policy that made me want to write about him. he was not exactly thrilled with my book. the day he read it, right as it was coming out -- he got a review copy. i got seven letters in the space of maybe eight hours, like one an hour, hand-delivered to me at the time life build