Between them, everything had started badly.
In 1969, Jacques Chirac was appointed by Georges Pompidou, new President of the Republic, to the post of Secretary of State for the Budget.
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is Minister of the Economy and Finance.
At 43, he is already a star in political life who finds “his” ministry three and a half years after being driven out by General de Gaulle.
Chirac, six years his junior, is still only the "bulldozer" of Pompidou, unknown to public opinion outside the borders of Corrèze where he is a deputy.
Giscard looks down on this young protégé of the President of the Republic.
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During work meetings, he has tea served and forgets to share it with his “subordinate”.
"Thank you, Minister, I never drink tea,"
said the Secretary of State to him.
Jacques Chirac, in his Memoirs, speaks of Giscard as a man
"of exceptional intelligence and stature".
But this is to add a few pages further:
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