Former US President Barack Obama delivers, in his memoirs to be published Tuesday, some impressions of his former counterparts, including Nicolas Sarkozy. And his comment should please the person concerned … “It bulges the torso like a little rooster”, he wrote about the former French president, according to short extracts published in a review of the New York Times written by Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Evoking his former Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, Barack Obama recounts that, during a one-to-one meeting, the latter read documents in such a monotonous manner that he almost suggested to him “to buy both time by exchanging our documents and reading them as we please ”.
“Cold conquest of power”
The former Democratic president also sketches quick portraits of some of the Republican tenors, like Senator Mitch McConnell. “He did more than compensate for his lack of charisma (…) by a discipline, a perspicacity and a total absence of moods which he put at the service of a cold conquest of the power”, he writes. The first volume of the memoirs of the former president, entitled À Promised Land (A promised land, Fayard editions), will be published on Tuesday November 17, 2020.
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