French visionary Jean Monnet, one of the founding fathers of the European Union, and his Washington experience and lasting legacy

29/07/2022 27 min Temporada 14 Episodio 30

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Llewellyn King and Linda Gasparello discuss how a visionary French Cognac maker and distributor, Jean Monnet, working for Churchill in Washington in 1940, was able to get Roosevelt to send armaments to the British, and would become one of the founding fathers of the European Union.