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December 20, 2011

Vaclav Havel: The Outsider in Power

Madeleine Albright, Washington Post

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Havel, who died Sunday at age 75, never became fully comfortable with the exercise of political power. Through two terms as president, he maintained the psychology of the outsider, worrying about the effect holding high office could have on his own moral sense.

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TAGGED: Madeleine Albright, Cold War, Soviet Union, Russia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Vaclav Havel

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