Word: ousters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waiting newsmen, peppery, popular little Antoine Pinay gave his own blunt version of his ouster. Torn between awareness of the public confidence that Pinay inspires and impatience with Pinay's questioning of De Gaulle's loyalty to the Western alliance, De Gaulle had sought to keep Pinay in the Cabinet by offering him the job of minister in charge of "longterm national policy." Snorted Pinay: "They wanted me to supervise our future but keep hands off the present . . . In the end they heaped me with flowers and chucked...
...Many Saviors. Pinay's ouster, as both he and De Gaulle clearly realized, marked the beginning rather than the end of a battle. Insisting that he was leaving "without bitterness." Pinay said he was temporarily withdrawing from politics-but in a phrase deliberately reminiscent of De Gaulle's self-imposed political retirement in 1946, Pinay proclaimed that he would "always remain at the disposition of the French people...