sentences:  More than forty years later, De Jong is considered by many to have made well thought-out decisions during his time as Prime Minister and when needed showed enough strength with a far more progressive ideology than he was credited for at the time.Politicians from the entire political spectrum have labelled De Jong as one of the better prime ministers of the Netherlands.In an episode of the Dutch television programme "Netwerk" aired in 2005, he is even labelled as perhaps the best postwar Prime Minister of the Netherlands.