David Paterson, his affable successor, was a breath of fresh air.
He failed, and any successor who wants to arrest the abolitionist trend is likely also to be frustrated.
To the consternation of some of his supporters, he did accept an award from the ex-KGB officer who became Mr Yeltsin's successor, Vladimir Putin.
One of the most startling turn of events was the saga of the arrest of Saif al-Islam, the second son and the man widely seen, until several months ago, as his likely successor.
Yet the President has conspicuously failed to groom a successor.
And he offered some advice for his successor: move quickly to build a cooperative but candid relationship with Chinese leaders.
"We know that Tony Hayward is leaving his position and he will introduce his successor," Igor Sechin told reporters ahead of his meeting with the embattled BP boss.
NO ONE can accuse Howard Schultz of inaction since he returned as chief executive of Starbucks, the firm he built into a multinational only to watch it stumble under his successor.
The chairman has designated her as his successor.
Since his resignation, he seems to have cast aside those memories to grow increasingly resentful of his successor.
The book, which reveals for the first time Mr Blair’s feelings about his successor as prime minister, Gordon Brown, threatened an untimely refocusing of attention on old party divisions.
Their current pharaoh is 82 years old, visibly ailing, and has no anointed successor.
His father has also decided that, at least for now, his successor should be referred to in the official propaganda as "Bright Comrade."
Preparing the budget is a successor of all other activities.
The bad news for Bush’s successor, Barack Obama, is that he now faces a much larger and potentially more troubling axis—an axis of upheaval.
He argues that Brussels is the new Moscow, the European Union a successor to the Soviet Union.
Given Goldman's extraordinary success, Mr Paulson's successor will almost certainly be an insider.
Dilma Rousseff, Lula's successor, is trying to rationalise interstate taxes, and has so far refused state governors' request to reintroduce a financial-transactions tax.
The King designated Hussein as his successor.
The prospective indictment of Bill Clinton after he left office: Robert Ray, Starr's successor at OIC, intended to empanel a new grand jury and bring a criminal case against the ex-president.
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