The setback prompted Halifax to pursue a new policy intended to avoid outright war with Vichy, and encourage anti-German feeling among the French colonies, while keeping de Gaulle onside.
But ours was a little more interesting because it was also when our head coach, Sean Payton, Came in the locker room and said, hey, we're kicking an onside kick to start the second half.
I was at the City Archive in Balmer giving a lecture on the 100th anniversary of the change in offside law to make sure you only needed two defenders to play a forward onside rather than three.
That not only kept the presidents onside and ensured he was kept in the loop, but it also made " the chubby little man with the fat black cigar" , as one newspaper described him, deeply popular across America.