Italian politician and statesman (1919–2013)
Seven times prime minister, four decades in every major Italian office, and then the trials: prosecutors proved ties to Cosa Nostra up to 1980, charged him with ordering a journalist's murder, won a guilty verdict that was later overturned. He walked free on statutes of limitations and quipped he'd been blamed for everything in Italy except the Punic Wars.
Giulio Andreotti rose as a protégé of Alcide De Gasperi, reaching cabinet rank young and spending forty years commanding the levers of the Italian state — Interior, Defence, Finance, Foreign Affairs, and seven turns as prime minister between 1972 and 1992. He founded the National Healthcare Service, contained inflation after the 1973 oil crisis, guided Italy into deeper European integration, and held the confidence of the Vatican, business, and the civil service. His Christian Democracy steered a substantially rural country into the world's fifth-largest economy, though critics saw a master of…
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