Echoing other analysts, New York Times opinion columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote: "What happened in the Oval Office on (Feb.

Roosevelt agreed when his ambassador to Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, described de Gaulle as “an apprentice dictator”. There is a chilling echo in Trump’s description of Volodymyr Zelensky as a ...

Infuriating, because de Gaulle’s narrative offers such a partial, anti-British and anti-American version of the events of World War II as to be virtually useless as objective history.

Charles de Gaulle was not the French prime minister. That job belonged to Paul Reynaud. De Gaulle had been undersecretary of state for defence in Reynaud's government for less than two weeks.