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Can MPs, MCAs be everything to everyone?

In 1976, I watched the then Governor Jimmy Carter and President Gerald Ford of US debate domestic policy issues and I have never forgotten the words of the late President Ford.

He said in reply to a question by the moderator of the debate that “A president cannot be everything to everybody but has to be the same thing to everybody!”

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