Henry Kissinger paid tribute to the late Sen. John McCain Saturday, remembering the Arizona Republican’s work to restore relations with Vietnam and reject isolationist foreign policy.
“The world will be lonelier without John McCain,” said Kissinger, who served as the secretary of state in the Nixon White House, and oversaw the extension of the Vietnam War. “John McCain’s name became synonymous with an America that reached out. He was on the frontlines of all these battles for decency and freedom.”
“John has bestowed on us a much needed moment of unity,” Kissinger said at McCain's funeral in Washington, D.C. That unity, though, extended only so far on Saturday, as President Trump was notably not invited to any of McCain’s memorial services.
“Our country has had the good fortune that at times of national trial, a few great personalities have emerged to remind us of our sense of unity and inspire us to fulfill our sustaining values,” Kissinger said. “John McCain was one of those gifts of destiny."
Kissinger recalled the first time he met McCain after he returned from being held as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“John’s focus was on creating a better future; as a senator he supported the restoration of relations with Vietnam,” Kissinger said. “Honor was John’s north star.”
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