John Kerry and Charles de Gaulle

Remember during the debate when the Democratic Challenger chose to cite a historical anecdote involving a World Leader?

I mean, we can remember when President Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis sent his secretary of state to Paris to meet with De Gaulle. And in the middle of the discussion, to tell them about the missiles in Cuba, he said, “Here, let me show you the photos.” And DeGaulle waved them off and said, “No, no, no, no. The word of the president of the United States is good enough for me.” - John Kerry

One might wonder, though, what doubts there were to raise?

And what was De Gaulle going to say, anyway - “We have no spy planes or relevant expertise in our government, but we doubt you regardless?” Just wondering. - Just One Minute

Anyway, it was good that President Kennedy had such a warm relationship with such a staunch ally.

The government of Charles de Gaulle held hundreds of foreigners, including at least three Britons, in an internment camp near Toulouse for up to four years after the second world war, according to secret documents. The papers, part of a cache of 12,000 photocopied illegally by an Austrian-born Jew, reveal the extent to which French officials collaborated with their fleeing Nazi occupiers even as their country was being liberated. They also show that, when the war was over, France went to extraordinary lengths to hide as much evidence of that collaboration as possible. - Jon Henley

Or maybe not.

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