There are leaders who remain an enigma to the citizens who have placed their trust and power in them. Former French President François Mitterrand was one of those: His term of office lasted from 1981 to 1995, but after that it took hundreds of books and dozens of films to explain to the French who the man was. Even his designated biographer despaired of the case of Ronald Reagan and wrote a novel instead. In this country there hasn’t been a sphinx at the top since 1945, everyone presented themselves as an honest woman and an honest man. Her love, her luxury and her drug: work. Just Germany.
Olaf Scholz at Maischberger: Why television is not the chancellor’s medium – media
