Word: pompidou
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Dates: during 1959-1959
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...breakfasts on coffee and croissants with Madame de Gaulle, then plunges into a detailed summary of the French and foreign press. At 9 he enters his office (which is decorated with busts of Caesar and Nero) for a conference with his personal staff, headed by 47-year-old Georges Pompidou, onetime executive of the Rothschild bank. The day planned, De Gaulle spends from two to three hours receiving visitors. Contrary to their original expectations, De Gaulle treats his own Cabinet ministers with old-fashioned courtesy, listens carefully and takes notes, but makes his own final decisions...