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16: Tony Blair: Taking insults, swallowing pride, and negotiating with both sides

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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The Character Requirements for a Peace Process

I was lobbing the ball up there for you to sort of nod into the... Because I find it quite difficult doing these interviews where I sort of know the answer and I know what happened. But no politician is actually good about ever really being fully open about it because in a sense it's the magician's trick. It would be like asking the magician to actually show you how he got the rabbit out of the hat. What do you think looking at him 25 years later, has he changed as a person? Is he the same person? Has he older, wiser, more battered?"

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