This double CD captures the many often escalating verbal duels with Franz Josef Strauss in the German Bundestag. It documents the Bavarian beer tent orator as well as the grand speaker and unscrupulous tactician. Hated and revered, idolized and cursed: Franz Josef Strauss was the most controversial politician of the old Federal Republic. People either despised him or worshipped him, sometimes like a king. At the height of his power within the Union, during the 1980 Bundestag election campaign that divided the republic into two fiercely opposing camps, Strauss was defeated by the incumbent Helmut Schmidt. Outbursts, invectives, insults, heckling, and highly comical improvisations, imaginative imagery and baroque sentence structures: only his fiercest political opponents Herbert Wehner and Helmut Schmidt could match the speaker Strauss. "I am neither a saint nor a D.