Henry Kissinger never wanted the 20,000 pages of his telephone transcripts made public - not while he was alive, at any rate.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A supreme pragmatist, Kissinger was never interested in the art of the impossible - and nor, as a biographer, am I. That is why, having initially been invited to write his entire official biography, I eventually decided to devote myself to writing just one year in his life: 1973.
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.
Nixon did not anticipate the extent to which Kissinger, whom he barely knew when he appointed him national-security adviser in 1969, would be envious and high-strung - a maintenance project of the first order.
There will never be talking pictures.
We would never comment on private correspondence.
I never set out to be a published writer.
Harry Truman wrote scathing letters, but he almost never sent them.
History can never be covered up.