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10/26/93

Dr. Kissinger's Tribute to Helmut Schmidt

The challenge with which all statesmen must learn to live is the ultimate permanence of their achievements. They serve their societies with the full knowledge that they may have to share the fate of others that had proved transitory. And a leader must conduct himself as if he were making policy of permanent validity. But compared to the full and active lifetime of an individual leader, his time in office is usually much shorter; its seeming transitoriness, therefore, gives rise to the fear of having made no significant difference.

Helmut Schmidt has transcended this dilemma. He had already made a major intellectual contribution to his society before he entered government - in the fields of foreign and finance

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policy - and became a distinguished Defense and, later, Finance Minister. As Chancellor, he managed his country's transition into partnership with the Atlantic democracies while at the same time becoming a seminal contributor to the East-West dialogue.

After leaving office, Helmut succeeded by dint of his extraordinary analytic ability and the force and integrity of his personality to continue making significant contributions to the life of our times.

But those who know Helmut and love him will always be moved even more by his human qualities than by all the others: by the strength of his character, his loyalty, and his great personal warmth. There is literally no political figure in the world whom I trust more on the human level, or whose judgement I find more penetrating.

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Speaking for all his friends, I can say that Helmut has not
only made our lives better but that much more meaningful. And
we count on him to continue to do so for a long time to come.

DENKEN UND HANDELN IN
GLOBALER VERANTWORTUNG

FESTSCHRIFT FUER HELMUT SCHMIDT
ZUM 75. GEBURTSTAG

INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
Band II

VORWORT DES HERAUSGEBERS iv

I. PERSOENLICHE WIDMUNGEN -
HELMUT SCHMIDT IM SPIEGEL SEINER
FREUNDE UND KOLLEGEN

Raul ALFONSIN - Helmut Schmidts Ethik des
Pragmatismus 1

Paul VOLCKER - Helmut Schmidt - Der Wert seiner
Freundschaft 29

Francis BLANCHARD - Eine Begegnung mit Helmut
Schmidt 31

K.H. Hasan BASRI - Ueber Helmut Schmidt. 33

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