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You Could Have Heard A Pin Drop (Good Bite dated)
JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaulle decided to pull out of NATO.
De Gaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.
Rusk responded ("Does that include those who are buried here?")
De Gaulle did not respond.
You could have heard a pin drop
There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including
French and American.
During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying 'Have you heard the latest
dumb stunt Bush has done?
He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do,
bomb them?'
A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can
treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply
emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000
people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each
day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their
flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'
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