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Unforgotten person

18 May 2019

9:00 AM

18 May 2019

9:00 AM

A newly-elected Australian Prime Minister was pleased to receive a letter of congratulations from Australia’s longest serving PM, Sir Robert Menzies. The new PM replied warmly:

Dear Sir Robert, I was profoundly moved by your magnanimous message on my election to this great office. No Australian is more conscious than I how much the lustre, honour and authority of that office owe to the manner in which you held it with such distinction for so long.

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