Former US President Barack Obama delivers, in his memoirs to be published Tuesday, some impressions of his former counterparts, including Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Figaro Magazine
“
It bulges out the chest like a little rooster,
” he writes about the former French president, according to short extracts published in a New York Times review written Thursday, November 12 by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Evoking his former Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, Barack Obama recounts that, during a one-to-one meeting, the latter read documents in such a monotonous manner that he almost suggested to him "
to buy both time by exchanging our documents and reading them as we please
”.
The former Democratic president also sketches quick portraits of some of the Republican tenors, like Senator Mitch McConnell.
"
He did more than compensate for his lack of charisma (...) by a discipline, a perspicacity and a total absence of moods which he put at the service of a cold conquest of the power
", he writes.
The first volume of the former president's memoirs, entitled “
A Promised Land
” (“
A Promised Land
”, Fayard editions), will be published on Tuesday.
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