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They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

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David Lange
Age: 63 †
Born: 1942
Born: August 4
Died: 2005
Died: August 13
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Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
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Otahuhu
David Russell Lange
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