Henry Kissinger has never run for an office, yet his influence on the Republican party has been enormous. From National Security Adviser and Secretary of State under two Presidents, his power within the Republican party is enormous even though it reaches into all Oval Offices regardless of who is the sitting President.

Kissinger was Harvard educated and essentially a professor when he became involved advising the National Security Council and working with such organizations as the Council on Foreign Affairs. It was Nelson Rockefeller who brought him into the folds of the Republican party and it is there that he has stayed all these years. After leaving office, Kissinger has remained as powerful if not more than when he was Secretary of State. Every President consults with him and he is sought out by foreign leaders to give his opinion and advice. Politically, he has been more supportive of moderate, Rockefeller Republicans, but has been loyal to whatever or whomever is in office. That is a true diplomat. Kissinger is good about wielding and sharing his political power ..he campaigns for candidates at Senatorial and Congressional levels as well as whoever is the Presidential nominee and still attends the conventions.

Kissingers real value lies in his extreme intellect when it comes to foreign policy along with his life time of collecting friends in foreign places. He has easier and friendlier relationships with more heads of state than any White House ever hopes to have, and every one of them has depended on him. In recent years, he was a staunch supporter of John McCain and even thought disappointed in McCains defeat by Bush for a nomination and then the defeat by Obama, he is still loyal. Kissinger is one of those people whose influence in the Republican party runs so deep and so long that his opinion always matters.

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