Kissinger Wisdom

Dr. Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State, makes a comparison of presidents Nixon and Obama, on the occasion of the funeral of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Kissinger was speaking to the deceased's widow:

Nixon liked to have big personalities around him. Obama does not.

My source for this quote is a salty review of the Mark Leibovich book This Town, written for The New York Times by Christopher Buckley.