Nixon once set Henry Kissinger up with a famous socialite — and then interrupted him right when he was about to kiss her

Thu, 11/30/2023 - 12:01

Nixon Kissinger — President Richard Nixon meets with his foreign affairs adviser Henry Kissinger in his White House office in Washington, June 11, 1973.
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Richard Nixon once set Henry Kissinger up with prominent socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor.
As Kissinger went in for a kiss, Nixon interrupted him, according to the socialite's autobiography.
"Henry, come back immediately. I need you," Nixon said, according to the book.

Richard Nixon once set Henry Kissinger up with prominent Hungarian-American socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor.

But right when Kissinger — Nixon's national security advisor at the time — was about to kiss her, he was interrupted by the president, Gabor wrote in her 1991 autobiography, "One Lifetime Is Not Enough."