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Is it true that Robert McNamara approached you, as he was preparing to leave the Bank in 1980, about becoming president and that you became an American citizen so that you could be considered for the job?
Bob submitted a number of names to president Carter to succeed him and he spoke to me and told me I was one of them.
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