No matter how many books have been written about this man, the authors will never be able to determine, in an absolute way, who he was, unless he left his own writings. When, after the Metapolitefsi, I asked him: "Mr. President, why don’t you write your memoirs, but others write books about you," he replied curtly... "Let me tell you, memoirs are written by those who have something to hide."

But who was the Macedonian Prime Minister who wedged himself among the political "dynasties" of Athens and dominated the second half of the 20th century in Greece and gained worldwide fame? Politicians who experienced him both before the dictatorship and after the Metapolitefsi will paint his portrait:..."Konstantinos Karamanlis, the founder of the modern Greek Republic, was perhaps the most distant politician of the modern era, which is why he managed, beyond political animosities, to gather a sort of 'universal respect,' especially during the period of the Metapolitefsi."