Henry A. Kissinger Quotes
Does anyone have any questions for my answers?
Isaacson, Walter. Kissinger: A Biography. Simon & Schuster, 1992, p. 582.
Whether or not the United States should enter WWI was a major issue of the day. One wing of the Republican Party had been attacking Wilson for his “weakness” of not warring against Germany in spite of the provocations and attacks on ships killing Americans. However the majority of the voters were opposed to U. S. involvement in the war. If Hughes was for war, he would lose many votes; if he was against the war, he would lose the support of one half of his Republican base. His dodging the issue however lowered much of his public esteem. Woolley made sure that before and after every Hughes speech, reporters would ask him for his stance on the war, and the advertisement with this question.
Henry Alfred Kissinger KCMG is an American politician, diplomat, and geopolitical consultant who served as United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under the presidential administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. A Jewish refugee who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, he became National Security Advisor in 1969 and U.S. Secretary of State in 1973. For his actions negotiating a ceasefire in Vietnam, Kissinger received the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize under controversial circumstances, with two members of the committee resigning in protest.