His cabinet was noted for its distinguished ministers, including William Pember Reeves, who sponsored pioneering labour-protection legislation; John McKenzie, who fought against land monopolies; and Ballance's successor, Richard John Seddon.
The nation's first democratically elected president, the long-exiled democracy campaigner Alpha Condé, and his distinguished finance minister, Kerfalla Yansane, are struggling against an inheritance of systemic plunder.
How else could they miss the existence of a thriving Socialist Party, led by Eugene Debs (one of the nation's most famous union leaders) and Norman Thomas (a distinguished Presbyterian minister), during the early decades of the twentieth century?
Mr. Castaneda, a left-wing writer who teaches at New York University, is a son of one of the most distinguished foreign ministers in Mexico's recent history.
Plibersek said Rudd was a distinguished former prime minister, a very successful foreign minister, diplomat with decades of experience, and is an acknowledged expert on China.
It adds poignancy to the portrait of her father, a distinguished former education minister who failed as a political reformer.
"It was off the record at the time," a distinguished former cabinet minister rang me to say, "but I'm happy for it to be published now.
Long after his father's death and after Brazil had become a republic, the junior Paranhos would go on to a distinguished career as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
August 20 2001 Honorable Deputy Prime Minister, distinguished guests, It is a historic moment for Cambodia.
