Major said he sought elaboration--
perhaps two words.
"Not good," Yelstin grunted, according to Major.
It was Major's good humor that has helped him through the travails of what has been--by nearly all accounts--a stunningly successful political career.
Major's road to 10 Downing St. was unorthodox even by British standards. He did not attend college and learned through his positions in virtually every department of the British government.
He was an effective Chancellor of the Exchequer to Margaret Thatcher and made few enemies in the party, both factors in his ascent after Thatcher stepped down in 1990.
"I think [he served] from a sense of loyalty to the Conservative party and from a sense of duty to the country," said Pippa Norris, a lecturer at the Kennedy School and an expert on British politics.
Major faced two tasks that occupied nearly the entirety of his seven-year tenure as Prime Minister.
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