Professor Duncan McCargo was quoted by the New York Times in a May 26 obituary for Prem Tinsulanonda, an army commander in chief who served as prime minister of Thailand and headed the Privy Council of the king. Prem was 98.
“‘The king trusted Prem absolutely,’ wrote the political scientist Duncan McCargo, ‘seeing him as an incorruptible figure who shared his soft and understated approach, but who was a skilled alliance-builder and wielder of patronage,'” the Times quoted Professor McCargo as saying.
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