"If discussion touched Japan, he would say, 'Last week when I spoke to the prime minister in Tokyo…' Or Europe 'When I was in Vienna two weeks ago, the finance minister told me that…' Wassily Leontief had more first-hand information than anybody else I have ever known."

From "Remembering Wassily Leontief" Challenge/May-June 1999, pp.104-107 M.E. Sharp.

Photo shows Professor Leontief speaking with President Mitterand of France in 1982.

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