Henry Kissinger, American diplomat and Nobel winner, dead at 100 Reuters

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48. His "Associates" were a nasty bunch as well

Many years ago, I was called down to a South American country to meet with several government people. When I got there, some people I knew from the Central Bank told me there had been an unpleasant incident, and the whole thing had been called off. I said, what kind of crap is this? You people ask me to come here from Germany, and now I'm just supposed to turn around and go home? What happened? Well, it turns out that Kissinger Associates had also somehow gotten involved, and had met with the Economics Minister two days before I got there. Kissinger's guy had started ordering the government people around as if they were go-fers, threatening them to do what he wanted "or else." They threw him out, saying what assholes these Americans were, and that they wished nothing further to do with any of us.

The people I knew intervened, and asked the Economics Minister to meet with me and my two colleagues from Dallas for just ten minutes, and he could always throw us out if he thought we were no different. He said OK. We hit it off immediately, and stayed almost an hour. He explained his awful recent experience with Kissinger's guy, and wrongly assumed we'd all be like that. He invited us to stay for a week (we did).