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The Henry A. Kissinger Papers, Part I

Correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, cables, memoranda of conversations, typewritten transcripts of telephone conversations ("telcons"), minutes of meetings, interviews, articles, speeches, reports, agenda and briefing papers, talking points, research and policy papers, notes, biographical material, press releases, printed material, maps, audiotapes, and other papers relating chiefly to Kissinger's service as assistant to the president for national security affairs, 1969-1975, and as secretary of state, 1973-1977, in the administrations of presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. Subjects include the Vietnamese conflict, rapprochement with China and a triangular global balance between East and West, reduction of U.S.-Soviet tensions through arms control talks and detente, and the search for peace in the Middle East. Includes papers pertaining to Kissinger's July 1971 trip to China, the strategic arms limitation treaty (SALT), Anatoli Dobrynin, Andrei Gromyko, and the October 1973 Middle East war.

www.loc.gov/item/mm81075867/

The Henry A. Kissinger Papers, Parts II and III

Correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches, photographs and other material that document the career of Henry A. Kissinger.  Part II documents Kissinger’s pre-government, government, and post-government careers. Parts II and III together document numerous aspects of Kissinger’s career, including scholarship on international relations and his career at Harvard, 1954-1968, work as a foreign policy advisor to Nelson A. Rockefeller in the 1950s and 1960s, early government consulting before the Nixon administration, personal correspondence from his years of government service, 1969-1977, writing career after government, and contacts with prominent individuals around the world.

www.web.library.yale.edu/digital-collections/kissinger-collection

National Security Archive: The Kissinger Telcons

The National Security Archive initiated legal action to compel the State Department and the National Archives to recover the transcripts of Kissinger's telephone calls from the collection at the Library of Congress, and the archive contains approximately 20,000 declassified pages of these historic records, spanning Kissinger's tenure under President Nixon from 1969 to August 1974 as national security adviser and also as secretary of state beginning in September 1973.

www.nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB123/index.htm

Library of Congress Photo Archive

www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=henry+kissinger