“At a glamorous book launch given by Vogue for Katharine Graham in February 1997, a Nation colleague of mine was introduced to...
“At a glamorous book launch given by Vogue for Katharine Graham in February 1997, a Nation colleague of mine was introduced to Henry Kissinger. On hearing the name of the magazine, the doer, or of death drew back. “The Nation? So I suppose that to you I am a war criminal?” Yielding to that fatal instinct that sometimes urges people to be laid-back and unpredictable, my comrade attempted a pleasantry and observed that, in these post-cold war days, the old mag was just as likely to describe–who knows?–Bill Clinton as a war criminal. Kissinger stared into his cocktail and said, slowly and distinctly, “Mr. Clinton does not have the strength of character to be a war criminal.””— Christopher Hitchens, The Thief of Baghdad