So is every man, woman, and child I have heard speak of de Gaulle or his government in Paris.

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Is the sight of the German chancellor vainly urging back the floodwaters of the River Oder now a fitting metaphor for a man who seems, along with his government, to be inexorably sinking into a legislative and electoral morass?

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This was a confident President talking like a man who has won his second majority vote and now intends it to be a mandate to achieve his vision of government.

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