Lofty views
In the first volume of his memoirs, A Promised Land, former US President Barack Obama described Russian leader Vladimir Putin as tough, street-smart, unsentimental
…
…but not short.
It's his assessment of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy as all emotional outbursts and overblown rhetoric
that mostly confirmed my own view, based on far less intimacy.
Obama is 185cm tall, Putin is 170cm, and Sarkozy is 166cm. I'm 181cm, yay me!