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In September 1973, Nixon fired William P. Rogers as Secretary of State and replaced him with Kissinger. He would later state he had not been given enough time to know the Middle East as he settled into the State Department. [128]
This is a list of United States secretaries of state by time in office. This is based on the difference between dates; if counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be one greater. Cordell Hull is the only person to have served as secretary of state for more than eight years.
Henry Alfred Kissinger was appointed Secretary of State on September 21 by President Richard M. Nixon and served in the position from September 23, 1973 to January 20, 1977. With his appointment, he became the first person ever to serve as both Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, a position he had held since President Nixon was ...
Kissinger was the first person to ever hold the positions of Secretary of State and National Security Adviser at the same time. When Nixon resigned after the Watergate scandal, President Gerald Ford kept Kissinger in both positions until 1975, when Kissinger resigned as National Security Adviser.
William Rogers in a group photo of Nixon's cabinet on June 16, 1972, immediately to Nixon's right (sixth from the left on the bottom row). Rogers succeeded Dean Rusk as Secretary of State in the Nixon administration from January 22, 1969, to September 3, 1973.
Nov 30, 2023 · Diplomat Henry Kissinger was U.S. secretary of state under President Richard Nixon, winning the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for the Vietnam War accords.
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On January 23, 1969, Rogers was sworn in as secretary of state under President Nixon and served in the administration until he was asked to resign on September 23, 1973. Rogers spent his time working on Vietnam, signing the American cease-fire on January 24, 1973.
