Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
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Southern Charm,
Western Passion
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 16,091
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Re: Haider founds new Austrian party
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Originally Posted by Agrippa
He visited the USA and made some courses there (Harvard), he met Greenspan, Strom Thurmond, Henry Kissinger and after this he was never the same and as I said a former mentor of him said, that nobody knows what was up with him afterwards.
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Interesting. As they say, the devil is in the details.
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Originally Posted by Agrippa
If you ask people which were important in the party at that they time why they gave all the power to him, well, he deserved it at this time and was the only hope in a desperate situation and nobody could predict what would come, how he would change.
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Yet another reason to reject the centralisation of ideas and resources around a leader, Führer, Caudillo, or whatever you want to call them.
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