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To: KLP who wrote (69414)	1/28/2003 3:29:12 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

An excerpt from Ledeen's column today. The way the French used to treat us. >>>>part of De Gaulle's gloire was his utter reliability as an ally. General Vernon Walters was sent to Paris during the Cuban Missile Crisis to enlist French support for Kennedy's blockade against the Soviets (and remember that De Gaulle had worked very hard, to our very great annoyance, to insert himself as an independent interlocutor between us and the Soviets). Walters brought to Paris the U-2 photographs of the Cuban missile bases, and he offered to show them to De Gaulle. The French president waved him away. "I do not need your photographs, Walters," he said, "This is serious, and when the United States asks France for her support on a serious matter, she will give it. Just tell me what you want France to do."<<<<<