"Whenever French pundits and politicians want their leaders to stand up to USA, someone will always invoke the memory of Charles De Gaulle - so what's the real story of France's post WWII leader and his relationship with America? When US President Donald Trump reopened the possibility that the USA might seek to annexe Greenland, France's President Emmanuel Macron was repeatedly urged to 'find his inner De Gaulle' - even by The Local's columnist John Lichfield on a recent podcast . "
"Until then a general in the French army, unknown outside France and not very well known within it, De Gaulle fled to London and established himself the leader of the French resistance. He spoke to his own people remotely, via the medium of clandestine radio broadcasts, but had direct in-person dealings with other Allied leaders, including British prime minister Winston Churchill and the American presidents Franklin D Roosevelt and Harry Truman."
Charles de Gaulle's political career comprised two main phases: leadership of the wartime French resistance and a later presidency from 1959 to 1969. He fled to London in 1940, broadcast clandestine messages and met Allied leaders including Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. He retired after WWII but returned to guide France through the early Cold War. De Gaulle dealt directly with six American presidents, and his relations with them were decidedly mixed: Roosevelt distrusted him, Truman tolerated him, Eisenhower was cordial and sometimes friendly, while other relations proved strained.
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