“The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
This was an odd and disconcerting joke for former Secretary Henry Kissinger to have made to the Turkish Foreign Minister in 1975. It is worth pointing out that it seems this line was a common tool in the Secretary’s arsenal of charm that he regularly deployed across the globe.
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