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Shimon Peres

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He is sinister and slippery, always the man in a hurry.
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Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, describing Peres to President Gerald Ford, President Ford–Harold Wilson–James Callaghan memcon (May 30, 1975).

 
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