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Article: Minnesotans remember the king's common touch; Hussein took pleasure in chatting with everyday citizens of the Rochester area.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- February 8, 1999
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In Jordan, King Hussein was always a people's king. That didn't change when he came to Minnesota.
Right from his first visit to the Mayo Clinic in 1992, Hussein became one of its most accessible and visible VIPs, chatting with clerks in nearby shops and venturing out to the area's towns. Without question, he also was one of the most popular. Nearly everyone it seems in Rochester can recall with enthusiasm the times they caught glimpse of the king.
Now, with Hussein's death, the king is being remembered as a smiling, gracious man who seemed more of a friend than the leader of a faraway desert kingdom.
"I think people here really feel like they ...
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