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...In the study sits a photograph of the artist with the UK prime minister James Callaghan and German chancellor Helmut Schmidt....
...Rutte likes to quote the late West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt: “Anyone having visions should see a doctor.” A Dutch premier is a chairman, not a visionary....
...“This co-operation has never been easy, except for one time when the leaders were friends, [Valéry] Giscard [d’Estaing] and [Helmut] Schmidt.” He is hopeful about Poland’s role under Donald Tusk....
...But Bingener and Wehner describe how SPD grandees from former chancellor Helmut Schmidt down agitated to get them lifted — especially economics minister and vice-chancellor Sigmar Gabriel....
...Germany has had 20 defence ministers since the second world war, and only one of them, Helmut Schmidt, went on to become chancellor....
...To offset this stimulus, the Fed was forced to raise rates to what Helmut Schmidt observed were their highest levels since the time of Christ. The combination multiplied government debt....
...It was an SPD chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, who had supported Nato’s decision to station more missiles in the country....
...And as leaders whenever they feel a vision coming on they should remember the words of the late Helmut Schmidt, former German chancellor: people who have visions should see a doctor....
...I found a hugely entertaining interview in the New York Times in 1982 headlined “Helmut’s Pipeline”, in which the NYT’s resident conservative William Safire berated the then chancellor Helmut Schmidt of...
...More troubling to Washington was the response of Helmut Schmidt, West Germany’s chancellor, who argued that a Soviet invasion would not endanger detente....
...The Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt (1974-1982) wrangled oil price shocks, domestic terrorists, US president Jimmy Carter and the stationing of medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe....
...Helmut Schmidt (1974-82) was a formidably intellectual proponent of arms control reinforced with deterrence — who was ultimately brought down for it by his own party....
...Like Helmut Schmidt, a former SPD chancellor, he built his political career in Hamburg, the port-city whose citizens are famous for their resolute common sense....
...Willy Brandt did so for the SPD in 1969 and Helmut Schmidt in 1976 and 1980, teaming up with the liberal Free Democrats....
...As Hamburg’s interior minister, Helmut Schmidt handled the flood crisis in his port city in 1962 so efficiently that he rose to national prominence and became chancellor 12 years later....
...In an interview in 2007, the former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt recounted how, shortly before the Iranian revolution, Mohammad Reza Shah’s government wanted to buy a stake in Daimler-Benz....
...It propped up the governments of the Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt and the Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl, and its opponents said it would do anything to stay in power....
...Rutte himself, a Germanophile, likes to quote the late West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt: “Anyone having visions should see a doctor.”...
...But Giscard found a soulmate in Helmut Schmidt, the Social Democrat German chancellor with whom he formed a firm friendship — always conducted in English — of lasting consequence....
...Maybe Helmut Schmidt for some crisis management? There have been flirtations with Gaullism (Tony Barber, March 24)....
...In 1980, the CSU’s Franz Josef Strauss, for many still the personification of Bavarian politics, lost to the Hanseatically cool Helmut Schmidt; in 2002, Edmund Stoiber came up short against Gerhard Schröder...
...However, I am reminded of the caustic words of Helmut Schmidt, West German chancellor from 1974 to 1982. He said the US-UK relationship was “so special that only one side knows it exists”....
...In Berlin it is often described as the “ejector seat”: Germany has had 18 defence ministers since the second world war, and only one of them, Helmut Schmidt, went on to become chancellor....
...On the other, as defence minister she occupies a post from which only one out of 18 incumbents since the second world war — Helmut Schmidt, the late SPD leader — has moved up to the chancellery....
...Most Germans did not know, for example, that Willy Brandt suffered debilitating bouts of depression and that Helmut Schmidt was prone to fainting fits....
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