希拉克回忆录——法国右翼政治入门_时事

希拉克回忆录——法国右翼政治入门

My Life in Politics, assembled from interviews by a friendly biographer, spans four decades in high office. Beginning with his stint as employment minister under Georges Pompidou, when Chirac says he dissuaded unions from joining the 1968 student protests, the book ends with his second term as president, during which he won notoriety in the US and acclaim at home for opposing the Iraq war.

一位传记作者友人整理了对希拉克的访谈，写成了《我的政治生涯》(My Life in Politics)一书，记述了希拉克担任要职的40年经历。该书从希拉克在乔治·蓬皮杜(Georges Pompidou)手下担任就业国务秘书开始，希拉克说，当时他劝阻了工会参加1968年的学生抗议活动。本书终于希拉克第二次担任法国总统，在第二任期内他因反对伊拉克战争而遭美国深恶痛绝，不过在国内饱受赞誉。

In the intervening years, he spent much time governing, whether as prime minister or president, in tandem with opponents from the left or rivals of similar convictions. Of the two, the governments of cohabitation seem to have been easier. Chirac struggled to pass economic reforms as prime minister under the Socialist presidency of Fran ois Mitterrand, but the experience taught him the “vices and virtues, subtle games and advantageous constraints of such arrangements. Such was their rapport that when Chirac succeeded him in the Elysée, Mitterand put the furniture back as Charles de Gaulle had had it as a welcome gesture.