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True leadership personified

17 August 2019

9:00 AM

17 August 2019

9:00 AM

Although Napoleon said that every soldier carries a field-marshal’s baton in his knapsack, great leaders are rare. Since Churchill, the UK has had only Margaret Thatcher. And between Reagan and Trump there has been no great President. Menzies and  Howard were great prime ministers, but for reasons argued here, Hawke did not attain that rank.

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