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...concessions that they wanted. Pompidou threatened to resign if De Gaulle did that, and pressed him instead to dissolve the National Assembly and call new elections. Many politicians believed that Pompidou also warned that if France did not heed De Gaulle's appeal for order, "Mon Genéral,-you must leave...
...biography to be published in France next month and in the U.S. in the fall, Charles de Gaulle, quoted in an unguarded moment, delivers his private opinion of Lyndon Johnson. The book, Le Général, was written by Pierre Galante, an editor of Paris-Match (and the husband of Olivia de Havilland), who extensively interviewed De Gaulle's relatives and government acquaintances. De Gaulle on Johnson...
...hero, as was Ike when he returned from Europe in 1945. Yet from the moment when House Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller swept down the center aisle of the packed chamber last week and announced, in his resonant Southern accent, "Mistah Speak-ah, Gen'ral William C. Westmoreland," the tall, tanned soldier held Congress in thrall...
...table was tactless enough to suggest that le général had scored another tactical victory. Instead, the story was that De Gaulle had made a "concession" to Erhard by telling him that West Germany did have a right to request France to withdraw its troops, since France had clearly abrogated the 1954 NATO agreement that allowed them to stay in the first place. Erhard replied to this face-saving gesture by informing De Gaulle that West Germany would be delighted to have the French troops remain, and he "hoped and expected" that some sort of agreement would...
Obviously setting up his trip to Cambodia next month, le général announced that he was ready to use his offices to bring about a Viet Nam settlement. His conditions: "the real ending of foreign intervention and the neutrality of the states in that region...