You know. ....That book where he is most mean-spirited

[Monte Davis]

DeGaulle and NATO -- good short summary:

http://adst.org/2014/06/france-has-degaulle-to-withdraw-from-nato/

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:

> Trying to think back, what was US's reaction when deGaulle pulled out of
> NATO?
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:42 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Facepalming over here. In Richmond in 2001, in the leadup to war, the
> > restaurant employing me rewrote its menu and kitchen protocol. We were
> > Forbidden from saying french fries. They were frittes. On the ticket
> > printouts, whenever orders were called, frittes. Always frittes. Of
> > course all I heard was Fritz. It so flummoxed me... People kvetch
> > about P.C. but political correctness has nothing on that kind of
> > contrarian weirdness.
> >
> > On 11/19/15, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> >> Great book!
> >>
> >> With all this Paris-love going on, I'm wondering if there'll be some
> >> Congressional bill to officially change "freedom fries" back to "french
> >> fries."
> >>
> >> Laura
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>
> >> From: David Kilroy
> >>
> >> Apropos of eff all, I finished rereading Down & Out In Paris & London
> the
> >> day before.  Plongeurs unite!
> >>
> >>
> >>
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