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Paul Sakariassen Bismarck...
...office in 1877, Ulysses and Julia embarked on a two-year world tour. Grant dined with Queen Victoria, discussed war with Bismarck, and noted, with eerie precognition, the sorry history of colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The triumphal trip was not enough to catapult him back into office for the third term he sought in 1880. Still, his peculiar luck held. James Garfield, who won, was assassinated just months after Inauguration...
...best a statesman can do is to listen to the rustle of God's mantle through history and try to catch the hem of it for a few steps. -Bismarck...
When he was a student in the dusty stacks of world affairs, Henry Kissinger discovered Germany's Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, who used power ruthlessly and successfully for peace, yet despite his immense ego, sensed his own insignificance...
Kissinger has pondered Bismarck's observation during his own journey through the corridors of world power. Not surprisingly, he has formed some ideas about leadership, ones that could help measure the men running for President...