The Past Fires Back: Thatcher and Kissinger in the NEws

Years later, when I was the News Dissector at WBN Radio in Boston, I covered Kissinger receiving yet anther Humanitarian award from the World Affairs Council. The press was not allowed to cover it.

  I staked out the back door with some colleagues and sure enough Henry The K exited. When I saw saw him, I raised my arms as if I was his best friend, and he came right up to me, thinking he should know me and gave  me a bare hug of an embrace.

I asked him he was ready to make confession. He asked about what? Crimes in Vietnam, I replied.

He then realized he was being sandbagged. He didn't know I was wearing a mike.

His response---offered up as a joke, but like all jokes, concealed some truth--was "that it will take too much time for me to do a full confession."

I am sure it would

It is no wonder that he is still a target of protests including one last year when he spoke at the 92 ^nd Street Y, and then again this coming May when he receives yet another award at a ceremony appropriately enough based on the Intrepid, A World War 11 aircraft carrier that doubles a pro-military Hudson River showcase of weapons and Air and space museum.

News Dissector Danny Schechter blogs at Newsdissector.Net. A filmmaker and author edits the new Mediachannel.org.

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