for example we went on fishing trips to norway and iceland it was fun when chirac invited us to stay nice for a week. so you traveled what we did of course would also traveled much during his presidency but at that time you could only see the world through the window of his car as those were official visits. my next question may sound odd but are you going he was able to spend his last years with you. of kools all of us in the family was so how do. you not own a trip he was always with me to spend time with his grandchildren and great grandchildren. all enjoyed being with him. it was interesting to talk to him and just spend time with him all he knew hard to make people happy would go fishing together for example. is it true that after his resignation he lost half of those considered he's friends. absolutely not all the friends who had been with him during his presidency remained with him. even today his friends stay in touch with me. very well your eyes are kind. because that means you are happy. my contrail is say i'm happy today because my husband is not with me but i am happy per

a gift might seem to be insignificant at first for instance when you president chirac during his student years was fond of pushkin so we bought him a full edition of pushkin in thirty volumes. then for instance what we supposed to present to president clinton it took us a long time before we decided on donating to him a statue of clinton himself playing the saxophone which he granted and said hold it don't give it away otherwise they'll break it. does it made a fantastic thing indeed was he himself fond of receiving gifts was a particular about what was donated to him. oh yes and i had great friendly relations with people who worked with many state leaders they would ask me about yeltsin's hobbies and due to this i from a cell phone a real mrs they began to present racket some tennis balls and ball serving devices we got so many that we didn't know where to put them all buddies nikolaevitch gave instructions that everything should be mainly forwarded to sports academies once we revealed the secret bodies nikolaevitch was very fond of history books and rare additions there are two options

interests of the person in question to make the gift to his or her liking for instance when you president chirac during his student years was fond of pushkin the ball so we bought him a full edition of pushkin and thirty. minutes then for instance what we supposed to present to president clinton it took us a long time before we decided on donating to him a statue of clinton himself playing the saxophone with him it would not be granted and said hold it don't give it away otherwise they'll break it. does have made a fantastic thing indeed but the boat search was a man who never has a tazer to talk to his people and never fear to look straight into the eyes of his people what stories can you recall about people's empathy with him. he would spontaneously go out to the people into the crowd you could imagine that in such cases the people were only happy when that happened all of that if that presently also was subjected to severe criticism during his presidency obviously people in such positions right here worked out some kind of entity which enabled them to distance their minds from it and keep on

and indeed that paradox was actually i think may be inadvertently brought up by the president chirac in that interview he gave on the tenth of march, 2003, where he says before he says we are going to veto -- he says there has been some evidence in compliance, but he thinks it is almost certainly because of the troops sitting outside of saddam hussein's door. that for sure was true. >> you told us last year began to feel more optimistic about the prospect of iraq collaborating with unmovic inspectors and early 2003. famous odds of 60/40 about avoiding the war. you gave reasons for that in your most recent statement. what mr. blair has told us in his statement and when he saw him a week or so ago is he concluded quite early on in december of 2002, following the iraqi declaration, the there was no prospect of some of hussein comply with the 1441. he almost made up his mind of the basis of the jic assessments of finding their analysis of the iraqi declaration. were you aware that was his view at the time? tenet i was more skeptical than i was, yes. and not surprisingly one can be more o

and indeed that paradox was actually i think may be inadvertently brought up by the president chirac in that interview he gave on the tenth of march, 2003, where he says before he says we are going to veto -- he says there has been some evidence in compliance, but he thinks it is almost certainly because of the troops sitting outside of saddam hussein's door. that for sure was true. >> you told us last year began to feel more optimistic about the prospect of iraq collaborating with unmovic inspectors and early 2003. famous odds of 60/40 about avoiding the war. you gave reasons for that in your most recent statement. what mr. blair has told us in his statement and when he saw him a week or so ago is he concluded quite early on in december of 2002, following the iraqi declaration, the there was no prospect of some of hussein comply with the 1441. he almost made up his mind of the basis of the jic assessments of finding their analysis of the iraqi declaration. were you aware that was his view at the time? tenet i was more skeptical than i was, yes. and not surprisingly one can be more o

and indeed that paradox was actually i think may be inadvertently brought up by the president chiracin that interview he gave on the tenth of march, 2003, where he says before he says we are going to veto -- he says there has been some evidence in compliance, but he thinks it is almost certainly because of the troops sitting outside of saddam hussein's door. that for sure was true. >> you told us last year began to feel more optimistic about the prospect of iraq collaborating with unmovic inspectors and early 2003. famous odds of 60/40 about avoiding the war. you gave reasons for that in your most recent statement. what mr. blair has told us in his statement and when he saw him a week or so ago is he concluded quite early on in december of 2002, following the iraqi declaration, the there was no prospect of some of hussein comply with the 1441. he almost made up his mind of the basis of the jic assessments of finding their analysis of the iraqi declaration. were you aware that was his view at the time? tenet i was more skeptical than i was, yes. and not surprisingly one can be more op

and indeed that paradox was actually i think may be inadvertently brought up by the president chirac in that interview he gave on the tenth of march, 2003, where he says before he says we are going to veto -- he says there has been some evidence in compliance, but he thinks it is almost certainly because of the troops sitting outse of saddam hussein's door. that for sure was true. >> you told us last year began to feel more optimistic about the prospect of iraq collaborating with unmovic inspectors and early 2003. famous odds of 60/40 about avoiding the war. you gave reasons for that in your most recent statement. what mr. blair has told us in his statement and when he saw him a week or so ago is he concluded quite early on in december of 2002, following the iraqi declaration, the there was no prospect of some of hussein comply with the 1441. he almost made up his mind of the basis of the ic assessments of finding their analysis of the iraqi declaration. were you aware that was his view at the time? tenet i was more skeptical than i was, yes. and not surprisingly one can be more opti