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Article: History will judge impact of man who said no to Lemass and yes to Sinn Fein ; Ian Paisley secured the return of devolution to Stormont but, as Political Correspondent Noel McAdam reports, sharing power stood in stark contrast to the rest of his long political career
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- Belfast Telegraph
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- March 5, 2008
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Yet if anyone can claim to have flouted Enoch Powell's maxim that
all political lives end in failure, it is arguably the province's
second First Minister.
And yet, in personal terms, given the appearance that he was
forced to go before a time of his choosing, and only months after
losing the other mainstay of his political life - Moderator of the
Free Presbyterian Church he also founded - it looks like failure.
His political and church lives were always inseparable.
In his own mind, it may feel like failure to Mr Paisley who had
repeatedly made clear he intended to continue for the full term of
office, another three years.
The historians' verdict will remain unclear for some time. But
after ...