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European Officials Keep Reading In Public [Europe Is Different]
Posted on July 02, 2009

Here is the German Economy Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, reading a fairy tale about the exchange rate to some children at the behest of the German Center for Fairy Tale Culture. Ok, Germany! Can you imagine if Geithner did this? Here in America, presidents do very occasionally read picture books to children, but a Mr. Bush kind of ruined that practice, for everyone, and so really only first ladies get those elementary school photo-ops, now. But here is Mr. Guttenberg reading the classic fairy tale Hans in Luck to some children. Hans in Luck is the story of a boy, Hans, who has a...
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