Time and time again, that proved to be the case as his common-man qualities, native intelligence and utter decency allowed him to connect with and secure the support of the American people.
Foote's plays are often deceptively simple, cherishing the common, small-town man, and "The Trip to Bountiful" is no exception.
And from the very beginning Berlusconi insistently presented himself as a winner a champion of the no-bullshit, let-me-have-my-fun common man.
Yet, that community has consistently generated some of the most hare-brained, common sense-defying theories and policy initiatives known to man.
He proposed that the talks on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) include limits heretofore resisted by NATO, namely on troops (notably a common ceiling requiring a 30, 000-man reduction in U.S. forces there) and on aircraft.
Mr Trivedi said he had been counselled to go for steep increase in fares as there had been no increase in nearly a decade but he chose not to do so "guided by the over-riding concern for the common man".
The new system will help identify those with no right to enter the so-called common travel area - comprising the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man - before they arrive at the border.
Players and film stars enjoy demi-god status and are big icons for the common man.
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The original argument for the Obama presidency was that this was a new, open-minded and liberal man intent on elevating the common good.
However, common sense would dictate that the possibility certainly exists through the man-made release of carbon sequestered for millions of years.
This is part one of the Bentley-owner experience the looks you get from the common man.
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The genetic inheritance of Homo sapiens sapiens, which evolved during the 7m years or so that separate us from our last common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos, equipped man to succeed as a hunter-gatherer.
Many of the foot-dragging arguments against the common supervisory plan were based on little more than straw man arguments.
Because such writing looks easy, and because the common man understands and likes it, Mr Causley was often scorned as simplistic and old-fashioned.
Nor have any of them resorted to the pathetic, last-ditch trick of donning leather outfits and straddling Harleys and biking out to meet the common man.
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