In an official statement released on Thursday, President Biden comments on the death of Henry Kissinger, offering condolences to his family and sharing his own personal remembrances, which differ vastly in tone from the majority of the reactions that flooded the internet on Wednesday when the news of the former Secretary of State's passing first circulated.
“I’ll never forget the first time I met Dr. Kissinger," Biden writes. "I was a young Senator, and he was Secretary of State—giving a briefing on the state of the world. Throughout our careers, we often disagreed. And often strongly. But from that first briefing — his fierce intellect and profound strategic focus was evident."
