Considered the most powerful secretary of state in the post-World War II era, Kissinger was by turns hailed as an ultrarealist who reshaped diplomacy to reflect US interests and denounced as having abandoned American values, particularly in the arena of human rights, if he thought it served the nation’s purposes
In the 1967 film The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman’s character, Benjamin Braddock, is pulled aside and given a one-word key to his future. “Plastics,” an older.