Word: giscards
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...contrast with the Assembly, Premier Pompidou's Cabinet was little changed. Key posts remained in the hands of trusted veterans such as suave, multilingual Maurice Couve de Murville, Charles de Gaulle's faithful Foreign Minister, and brainy Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing, who led a wing of the rightist Independent Party into the Gaullist camp during the election. Though there were few new faces in the government, its most pressing legislative goals were underscored by the jobs that went to two of De Gaulle's top troubleshooters, Louis Joxe and Christian Fouchet...