Word: generalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...married Claude Cahour, the daughter of a country doctor, whom he had met in Paris. Unlike so many of De Gaulle's disciples, Pompidou had neither enlisted in the exile army nor joined the underground in World War II. He passed it quietly as a teacher, and when the general marched victoriously into Paris, Pompidou watched the parade from the sidewalk, one spectator among many thousands. He liked what he saw, and arranged through a friend to join De Gaulle's staff. He soon came to the general's attention as the writer of succinct position papers...
...grew to be an extraordinary association. After De Gaulle left office in 1946, Pompidou stayed on in a series of civil service posts, but spent much of his time?very discreetly, almost secretly?as the manager of De Gaulle's affairs. He handled the publication of the general's memoirs, administered the foundation in memory of the De Gaulles' retarded daughter Anne, and was in fact unofficial chef de cabinet for the exile in Colombey. When De Gaulle finally returned to office as Premier in the last days of the Fourth Republic, Pompidou took a six-month leave of absence...
...bombarded with daily problems," he said one day. "I handle dossiers of a burning actuality. Everything is urgent at Matignon [the Premier's office]. But when I arrive at the Élysée, time no longer marches in the same step. Only the topics chosen voluntarily by the general as important are evoked...
...winners in Parliament. His control became dominant in the crisis-ridden atmosphere of last spring, when he even advised De Gaulle not to follow through on his promise of a personal referendum. Instead, Pompidou cannily proposed the alternative of parliamentary elections, on which only Pompidou's?not the general's?prestige would be staked. "If you lose the referendum, Mon Général, the regime is lost," said Pompidou. "If I lose the elections, I will be the only one to lose them." Reportedly, a suspicious De Gaulle replied: "And what...
...Marcellin to reduce the number of policemen blanketing Paris on riot standby. He thought that they were a partisan element as well, tending to give credence to De Gaulle's oft-proclaimed prophecy that after his departure chaos would ensue. Then he dismissed Gaullist Jacques Foccart as Secretary-General for African Affairs. Knowledgeable Frenchmen were delighted: Foccart's African designation was in fact a façade for his job as boss of the Gaullist "Barbouzes," a thuggish lot of secret police and informers...