privilege because this is what ballard just saying said as she referred to but this was under the charles de gaulle administration recall and this is the first time that america really went bankrupt big time on the global stage because in one nine hundred sixty nine charles de gaulle asked for the three hundred million dollars worth of gold that the us technically owed france due to the trade deficit and france sent a naval ship over here to new york to collect their gold and america had to give it to france had to give the three hundred million dollars worth of gold shortly there after great and asked for their gold as well which was similarly about three hundred million dollars america went bankrupt basically they said no we closed the gold window we're not going to pay you what we owe you so this is this whole debt ceiling debacle has already happened before spectacularly america did go bust but charles de gaulle had warned that you know it was the post bretton woods the bretton woods era when they established the u.s. dollar as a reserve currency he complained that it would be an exorbitant pri

they called charles de gaulle back in 1958. we're close to a de gaulle moment in this country. think this country is so much stronger than france was at that point. france had gone through a real debate and everything. but no doubt three straight repudiatin repudiating elections and looking like we're headed for a fourth. >> any way you can advise, steve, that this president of ours, president obama, president of the united states, can recover leadership? >> he needs to offer a specific plan for improving the economy. i think he needs to be mindful of what could pass extending the payroll cuts for employers and employees. pick a fight on the tax cuts for the rich and do things that make it difficult for the republicans to vote against a balanced approach and do things that will help employers create jobs. >> i tell you how he can do it if he'll just recognize this balanced approach, the re of it, you're not going to run the tea party. the tea party is not going to run the ryan plan over you. get rid of it. go first for the cuts on entitlement. go for tax reforms. give the exemp

president charles de gaulle of france once said that brazil is not a serious country.e that? is brazil a serious country now? >> bueno: it's not a serious country, in several instances, because they say they're going to do something, and then don't do something. here in rio de janeiro, you can invite someone to your house, they say they're going to come, and they don't show up. and they don't think it's... no, who cares? but how can you do business in a loose way? how can you run a country in a loose way? >> kroft: while many in brazil's cities lust for first-world status, the third world is never far away. for decades, brazil ignored the festering slums known as favelas, which wrap around rio, overlooking some of the most valuable real estate in the city. they have been staging areas for street crime against tourists, and safe havens for drug gangs so well armed that they brought down a police helicopter a few years ago with heavy machine gun fire. finally, after years of looking the other way, the military police have begun to move in. last fall, some parts of rio ha

it turns out it was to preempt charles de gaulle's visit to germany and undermine much of what de gaulle was doing in his european strategy based on a close franco german relationship. the phrase -- [german] >> has gone down as of the great presidential quotations of all time. kennedy's text was rewritten at the last moment and in doing so, he pitched it perfectly, expressing the right sentiment at the right moment in time. and like lincoln's, kennedy speech has acquired an iconic status. second, i would like to talk about billy brunt the acting mayor of berlin at that time and when he became the federal chancellor of west goirm. when brown became the chancellor of republic of west germany he embarked on a new course, he went from the a framework based on a western alliance, the atlantic alliance, to off politic, maintaining that western alliance while improving relationships with the east particularly with the soviet union and the european states. through renunciation of force agreements. for brunt, it was rooted in two key factors. the first was the lesson that he took away from 1961.