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Chancellor Angela Merkel's last dance

NPR's Book of the Day

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Merkle's Relationship With Donald Trump

Merkle prepared harder for that meeting because she knew it would be the most challenging one. She was determined to have a working relationship with him. But he wasn't interested in having a working relationship. He just fished out nch of candies from his pocket and tossed them at her. And she neither laughed nor scowled, which is how she deals with men who misbehave. Her brand of politics is that she dpersonalizes politics. It's a job to be done.

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