He certainly dislikes the idea of an adversarial type, such as Mr Klaus, replacing him.
In Alcoa's Pittsburgh office Chief Executive Klaus Kleinfeld has a cube with a sliding glass door.
Mr Klaus says he will get around to Lisbon only once everyone else has endorsed it.
So far some 600 local councils have taken down Mr Klaus's portrait in protest.
Across town, in the offices of his PR firm, Tomas Jirsa reflected on Mr Klaus's legacy.
But even some Klaus supporters were outraged on 1 January when he announced a far-reaching amnesty.
Klaus haters and Klaus lovers are manning the barricades, this time on Facebook and Twitter.
Psychologists Simon Townsend and Dr Klaus Zuberbuhler observed their behaviour in the Bundongo Forest, Uganda.
Zeman replaces Vaclav Klaus, who must step down after serving the maximum of two terms.
Last October, they gave in, making Vaclav Klaus the last man standing in Europe.
Most strikingly, Mr Klaus is at loggerheads with Mr Havel, once his ally against communism.
At home, Mr Klaus's tendency to get caught up in rows and political shenanigans persists.
But Mr Klaus thinks the Union may, in any event, be going his way.
Even Mr Klaus, a wily operator, may struggle to find excuses to stall for eight months.
Vaclav Klaus, the prime minister, has so far resisted calls for greater shareholder protection.
Mr Klaus boldly set the Czechs on their way out of communist stagnation eight years ago.
And no matter that Mr Klaus detests the court interfering in the executive branch of government.
And if some American business wants to hire Klaus, what right does our government have to interfere?
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With the end of his term of office fast approaching, Mr Klaus is now facing a trial.
Klaus Schwab, who founded it and still heads it, was at the time a professor of economics.
Only skipper Jason Bunyan and Klaus Jakobsen remain from the team that ended 2009 at Loomer Road.
The pair could barely conceal their smirks as they stood either side of the humbled Mr Klaus.
The winner will replace Vaclav Klaus, who must step down after serving the maximum of two terms.
He has put a new zing into his country's foreign relations to Mr Klaus's intense, if unjustified, annoyance.
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Since taking over in 1989, Klaus Zumwinkel, an ex-McKinsey man, has shaken things up with a vengeance.
The playwright-philosopher is revered in just the liberal-minded circles that Mr Klaus sees as soft-headed and elitist.
Klaus Kertess, in 1995, was more cautious, included more paintings and was criticised for an anodyne show.
Miss Werner fled from Britain when Klaus Fuchs was arrested in 1950, and settled in East Berlin.
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He predicted that either Mr Klaus or Mr Zeman would be "much more political" presidents than Mr Havel.
But Dr. Klaus Stohr of the World Health Organization is skeptical, and says it's too early to tell.
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