KISSINGER, ME, AND THE LIES OF THE MASTER

‘Off off the record’ with the man who secretly taped our telephone calls

Henry Kissinger, then national security adviser, in the Situation Room in the basement of the West Wing of the White House in 1969. / Photo by Wally McNamee/Corbis via Getty Images.

I left the New York Times in 1979, after many good stories and some not so good times, to write a book, The Price of Power, about Henry Kissinger and his years as a manipulat…