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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Sir Winston Churchill Also on the Calgary Herald site.It's good to know that even former Conservative PM Brian Mulroney has a human side to him. And it's even better to know that Peter C. Newman brought that to light in his new book, "The Secret Mulroney Tapes". I met Mr. Newman back in the spring when he was at the W.R. Castell Central Library downtown sharing his latest and greatest book, "Here Be Dragons". He spoke to us on his favorite people over his many years as a writer. He spoke candidly about the likes of Conrad Black, Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chretien and of course, Brian Mulroney. And now, Newman's candid writing has been published in another book which has managed to find some controversy over the past week. I for one am looking quite forward to cracking open Newman's newest book. Who better to write a memoir-like book about the man whose greatest legacy is GST, than his greatest friend Mr. Newman? Newman has managed to accomplish what not many people have been able to do: tell the truth about who Mulroney really was. He had almost unlimited resources since 1984 when they struck a deal; Newman could write his biography and Mulroney would offer his cooperation with the only rule being Newman couldn't make it public until Mulroney was out of office. Mulroney had the balls to say it like it is about his colleagues, something the rest of Canada were probably thinking too. The only thing that makes this a little more special is that Mulroney is in the public spotlight a little more than Joe Neighbor is. Nothing but praises should be given to Mulroney, and Newman for that matter. Mulroney now looks like a human - with flaws and opinions like everyone else has and Newman was just the man to tell us about them. Posted by Bella at 5:49 PM# 1 Comments: $5 says the rest of Canada opens up a can of gripe on Brian, and chooses to paint over everything he might have accomplished with a chorus of moaning about FTA and the GST as if those were brough in for the sheer fun of it. By
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