Georges Pompidou Quotes
Your city is remarkable not only for its beauty. It is also, of all the cities in the United States, the one whose name, the world over, conjures up the most visions and more than any other, incites one to dream.
Pompidou, Georges. Address to Mayor Joseph Alioto, San Francisco, 28 Feb. 1970. Quoted in The Department of State Bulletin, vol. 62, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970, p. 402.
Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou was a French politician who served as President of France from 1969 until his death in 1974. He previously was Prime Minister of France from 1962 to 1968—the longest tenure in the position's history. He had long been a top aide to President Charles de Gaulle; as head of state, he was a moderate conservative who repaired France's relationship with the United States and maintained positive relations with the newly independent former colonies in Africa.