nged a secret meeting with three French scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, they told de Gaulle about the atom bomb (Ledwidge 205).A new Assembly was created to create a new constitution, and elect a president. De Gaulle was elected president. The assembly then started to create a new constitution. De Gaulle had no part in this process and that frustrated him. The assembly wished to return to a government that was similar to the Third Republic. In de Gaulles opinion, that government was the reason for the defeat of France to the Germans. As a form of protest against this new government, de Gaulle resigned from office.After the resignation from office, de Gaulle spent most of his time at home with his wife and his daughter, Anne. In 1946, he started the Anne de Gaulle Foundation for handicapped children. Anne died of phenomena at the age of twenty. In 1952 and1956, de Gaulle had to have eye surgery to try to fix his deteriorating eyesight. In an interview, de Gaulle commented on Trumans decision to dismiss MacArthur during the Korean War, saying that If America had listened to MacArthur in 1951, she would have won the war.De Gaulle thinks of his years in the Rassemblement du Peuple Francais (RPF) as the least distinguished of his career. The RPF was anti-Communist and anti-Fourth Republic. These years were also when de Gaulle was most friendly to the U.S. and the most hostile toward the Soviet Union. The RPF came about from the intensity of the Cold War and the launching of the Fourth Republic in 1947 (Ledwidge 214). The new movement focused heavily on the Fourth Republics weakness to provide a stable form of government to France. After a booming start, in which there were nearly one million applications for membership in the first month of its existence the movement slowly started to loose strength due to the American Russian balance in Europe. In 1953, de Gaulle detached from the RPF and once again went into retirement.Afte...
