Letter to President Emmanuel Macron
Friday, July 14, 2017
Dear Sir,
We were in the audience mid-May in the Champs-Élysées at your inauguration, the thunderous applause as you vowed to champion global confidence, our eyes watering with pride at one of world’s youngest leaders, an emotion heightened in importance by the menace rising from the election of Mr Donald J. Trump.
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