Henry Kissinger Julius Caesar, Thomas Jefferson, and Karl Marx all helped change the world. They shaped it through conquest, politics, and theories. Henry Kissinger, perhaps not as known to the public as Caesar, Jefferson, or Marx, but he has helped shape the world we live in today. Born May 27, 1923 in Furth Germany, Kissinger would soon raise to service two presidents, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald Ford, as the chief foreign policy advisor and secretary of state (Kissinger ). With Kissinger’s guidance the United States would reopen its relations with the Peoples Republic of China for the first time in many years; his ‘shuttle diplomacy’ would prove valuable in dissolving the conflict bet