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  • Explaining to Delors why he had not made him prime minister in 1983, Mitterrand—recalling a tenthcentury

    The Commanding Heights DANIEL YERGIN 1998

  • Explaining to Delors why he had not made him prime minister in 1983, Mitterrand—recalling a tenthcentury dynasty—said, “You would have been the grand vizier, and I would have been the roifainéant the “lazy king”.”

    THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS DANIEL YERGIN 1998

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