📍Western Springs, Auckland 1022, New Zealand
1921 – 1939“I grew up in modest circumstances in Auckland, around Western Springs — an only child whose father was lost to illness when I was eight, leaving my mother and my formidable grandmother to raise me. My grandmother Rusha was a fierce, iron-willed socialist, and though I never took her creed, I took from her an immense ambition and a lifelong fascination with politics. We had little money, and I learned the value of hard work and self-reliance early. That tough, watchful Auckland childhood — proud, careful, determined never to be powerless again — made the combative man and Prime Minister I became.”
👍 LovedMy iron-willed grandmother, who gave me ambition and a consuming interest in politics
👎 DislikedLosing my father to illness at eight, and the genteel poverty that taught me never to be powerless
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Sources: Wikipedia: Robert Muldoon