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...ROBERT WEYGAND (D) District 2 (West--Western Providence; Warwick...
Taking an unusual route into politics--as a landscape architect--Weygand has turned public service into a successful second career. Now he wants a seat in Congress and has a record of supporting small businesses, revitalizing the Rhode Island Small Business Advisory Council and pushing tax breaks that won him recognition as 1995 SBA Rhode Island Financial Advocate of the Year...
...ROBERT WEYGAND Democrat--Rhode Island 2nd The current Lieutenant Governor scored a 34-point victory over Richard Wild to fill Senator-elect Jack Reed's House seat...
...defensive line along the Somme, but after having lost about 40 divisions plus almost all British forces, they were seriously outnumbered, as well as outgunned and outgeneraled. The Germans had not only their panzer units but also 130 infantry divisions. On June 7 the French commander Maxime Weygand told the government, "The battle of the Somme is lost," and advised it to ask for an armistice. Premier Reynaud declared, "We shall fight in front of Paris," but the government itself fled to Tours and then Bordeaux...
...doubt many would-be heirs of Napoleon will object to your impertinent Milestone about the shame of General Maxime Weygand. But your judgment was quite right; the old soldier typified the weakness of his time and of his country. Compared to the now-disparaged "Anglo-Saxons," Weygand and his colleagues were made of mousse. Surely only Gallic "rationalism" combined with characteristic grandeur could induce any Frenchman today to think otherwise...