Last week, Gandhi's political heir, Sonia Gandhi, resigned as president of the Congress party four months before a general election.

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Spitzer considered himself an heir of reformers such as Theodore Roosevelt, whose portrait he kept in his office as attorney general, Masters wrote in her biography.

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My father and a friend, Nicholas Stroh, an heir to the Stroh Brewery in Detroit and a free-lance reporter, became suspicious of the gregarious general.

FORBES: Social Security Benefits: A Personal Story, Speech at Institutional Capitol Investing Forum. (September 1, 1999)