"[He is] a special phenomenon: a man of humble origins, unremarkable intellectual endowment, infuriating obstinacy, but with an impeccable honesty, a statesmanlike flair in big issues and an accurate assessment of the needs and the motivations of his fellow countrymen which few politicians in our age have equalled. In the Greek context he was a Churchill."
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Konstantinos Karamanlis
Konstantinos Karamanlis (8 March 1907 – 23 April 1998) was a Greek politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics. He was the four-time Prime Minister of Greece and two-term president of the Third Hellenic Republic. A towering figure in Greek politics, his political c
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