“Fortune had done him few favors in the past, and he wasn’t sure he trusted it.”
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Source: Axis (2007), Chapter 7 (pp. 92-93)
“Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.”
Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 7, Descent Into The Mirror, p. 190
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