The Old Regime and the Revolution

"Professor, I will never forget that in that dramatic year of 1975, when several times we were on the brink of civil war, I myself and many of those I commanded always felt reassured knowing that if some fatality were to decapitate, as happened in other Revolutions, the leaderships of the PS and the PPD, we would still have in you someone to whom, after military victory, we could confidently entrust the government of the country, knowing that you would help us make the democracy we had promised the Portuguese people work."
Words of President Ramalho Eanes, in 1985, to Freitas do Amaral.