Among the personalities who took part in elaborating those guideline I should like once more to recall Donato Menichella, who enjoyed relations of mutual collaboration and respect with Fanfani, as did my other illustrious predecessors who followed him, Guido Carli, Paolo Baffi and Carlo Azeglio Ciampi.
In the climate of rebirth, the emphasis laid on the role of the “public sector” reflected the need to plan, to have an overview of the evolution of economic and social life in which to insert the action of private-sector actors in a long-term perspective.