[dirtboy]

Contrast the attitude of Joseph Kennedy with that of Charles de Gaulle, who treated his daughter Anne, born with Down syndrome in 1928, with great affection. The image of this arrogant officer rocking Anne in his arms at night speaks across the years.

For once, I think highly of de Gaulle.

[Tax-chick]

That story really made me smile. He couldn’t have been as full of himself as he seemed, if he had room in his heart for a child with Down’s Syndrome. It’s a reminder that people are often better than we give them credit for.

[230FMJ]

I always admired DeGaulle’s courage, but was put-off by what I saw a arrogance. This makes the arrogance insignificant.

[Blood of Tyrants]

He went up a couple of notches in my book, too.

[Blood of Tyrants]

From wiki:

On 22 August 1962, Charles de Gaulle was the victim of an attempted assassination at Petit-Clamart. He later said that the potentially fatal bullet had been stopped by the frame of the photograph of Anne that he always carried with him, placed this particular day on the rear shelf of his car.