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What I learned from Henry Kissinger

Picture this: Henry Kissinger and Hillary Clinton, two diplomatic powerhouses, sitting together in the Ben Franklin Room, one of the Diplomatic Reception Rooms at the U.S. State Department—the heart of America’s soft power stage.

I’m there because we’re raising $22 million to renovate the eighth floor, and what Kissinger says next changes everything I th…