Respectful Behavior Quotes
He refused to answer questions about an alleged affair he was carrying on, and his estrangement from his partner. (He was not married to the “First Lady”. France is much more sophisticated about the sex lives of politicians than is the United States. In addition, French politicians get much more of a zone of privacy from the press—much like that of the United States in the middle of the 20th century.
He fought in the Crusades with Saladin and was living in Jerusalem under Christian occupation. The cultural dissonance regarding the Christian verses Muslim treatment of women was even noted a thousand years ago. At the time women were fare from equal or emancipated, but even this degree of allowing women conversational rights was considered quite radical by the quote.