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Christopher Hitchens, author of “The Trial of Henry Kissinger,” a book which examines the alleged war crimes Kissinger committed while acting as U.S. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. Hitchens shares his thoughts on the controversial figure and his personality. He answers the question: “What would you do if Henry Kissinger decided to call you and try to bury the hatchet after all these years?”

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Christopher Hitchens admits to Anderson Cooper that he has a very realistic and rational attitude towards the possibility of him beating esophageal cancer. He discusses his mother's suicide and the concept of closure. Hitchens died on December 15, 2011.

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Christopher Hitchens and Salman Rushdie, two close friends, play word games in front of a crowd and joke about the title of Hitchens' memoir, Hitch-22. Watch their non-stop banter with the duo exchanging anecdotes and even reciting limericks to one another. Hitchens died on December 15, 2011.

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Salman Rushdie speaks to students at Emory University about his friendship with the oft-contentious Christopher Hitchens, who died on December 15, 2011. While Rushdie and Hitchens did not always agree on certain political issue, it never jeopardized their friendship. He begins with: "One of the things about being Christopher's friend is that you disagreed with him maybe 75% of the time…but he was very enjoyable to disagree with…"

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Martin Amis, a close friend of Christopher Hitchens, talks about how Christopher Hitchens' death has lead him to appreciate life to the degree that Hitchens had. Amis goes on to explain that despite his friend's love for literature, Hitchens was too intelligent to be a novelist: "You need a bit of stupidity and a bit of innocence to be a novelist…" Hitchens died on December 15, 2011.

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Richard Dawkins pays tribute to Christopher Hitchens, who died on December 15, 2011. He praises Hitchens' political motivations for being an anti-theist and compares it to his own scientific motivations: "[Hitchens] passionately hated dictators and tyrants. And the most dictatorial and tyrannical of all dictatorial tyrants was God."

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Richard Dawkins on Christoper Hitchens' Views on God appeared first on Witnify.