Reexamining de Gaulle's Peace Initiative on the Vietnam War

Anti-Americanism and U.S. Foreign Relations

“…57 (Its logic was confirmed in an excellent recent article by Yuko Torikata in Diplomatic History.) 58 But none of it made any difference to top U.S. officials, who consistently ascribed French policy to de Gaulle's anti-Americanism. National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy urged the president simply to "ignore Nosey Charlie" on Vietnam.…”

France in the Cold War

“…One can imagine how much pleasure this must have given de Gaulle: Kennedy, after all, as a senator had demanded that the French get out of Algeria, and as president had done what he could to see that de Gaulle did so. In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in an infl ammatory speech in 1965, de Gaulle held American intervention fully responsible for the Vietnam War (Torikata, 2007). In February-March 1966 de Gaulle took France out of NATO's integrated command.…”