De Gaulle Dies: France Mourns Its Liberator
De Gaulle's France walked out of NATO's integrated military command, kicked American troops off French soil, and tried to build a Europe independent of both Washington and Moscow. He'd done it once before during the war, convincing Churchill and Roosevelt to treat a man with no army and no country as a legitimate head of state. By sheer refusal to be ignored, he made it work both times. He died in 1970 watching the evening news. Heart attack. Hands on the table.
November 9, 1970
56 years ago
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