Word: baumel
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...Gaulle's party. The outward trappings were fondly assumed to be à l'americaine: blue-suited hostesses, party emblems, name tags for delegates, neckties imprinted with the Cross of Lorraine. After the stunning news of Kennedy's death flashed through the meeting hall, Party Secretary Jacques Baumel noted that De Gaulle now was "one of the last great captains of the Western world." Most delegates thereafter failed to concentrate on the endless, self-congratulatory speeches that Le Monde later called an exercise in "autosatisfaction," instead discussed the crime and the need for a French Vice President...