#mr nathan

Mr S R Nathan. 

“I’ve done the best I can...You don’t do it because you want to leave a legacy. You do the best you can.” - Mr S R Nathan, 2011

He blinked at me a few times.

A Man without a Voice, has this to say........ What a Joke............

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NUS President: Nathan is a ‘great’ man who accomplished ‘much’ in many areas

Following President S R Nathan’s announcement that he will not be contesting in the coming presidential election due to ‘old age’, accolades have poured in from far and wide to lend some sort of dignity to an otherwise ‘quiet’ presidency.

Besides the customary ‘tributes’ from the PAP ministers, NUS President Tan Chorh Chuan now jumped onto the bandwagon to lavish generous praises on Mr Nathan, who is also the Chancellor of NUS.

Speaking at a commencement dinner, NUS president Tan Chorh Chuan described Mr Nathan, 87, as ‘a great man’ who had accomplished ‘much’ in many areas.

Professor Tan used an example of a personal letter that Mr Nathan wrote to the school alumni in 2005 to support his claims that Mr Nathan is a ‘great’ man. According to him, Mr Nathan’s letter helped raise $1 million dollars for students in need, which is less than half his annual salary.

Mr Nathan also visited many of the university’s departments, spoke to large numbers of student groups and faculty, and hosted them at ‘countless’ lunches and dinners at the Istana, said Prof Tan.

Despite widespread criticisms about his ‘inactive’ presidency, Mr S R Nathan remains unperturbed, describing them as “noise in the environment”.

“It cannot be stopped, hence there is no point adding to it,” he told the state media lately.

According to the Wikipedia entry on Mr Nathan, he worked for the Japanese Kempeitai as a translator during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore from 1942 to 1945.

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