Reply to Havel’s death
S. President Barack Obama: I was sincerely saddened to gain knowledge of of the desertion nowadays of Vaclav Havel, a author and prisoner of conscience who became president of Czechoslovakia and of the Czech nation. Having encountered many setbacks, Havel lived with a spirit of look forward to, which he defined in the role of the capacity to work out intended for something for the reason that it is excellent, not a minute ago for the reason that it stands a attempt to succeed. His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the meaninglessness of a repressive ideology, and proved with the purpose of moral leadership is supplementary powerful than one bat.ex- U.S.