American counterparts of French Presidents

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Your description of Sarkozy makes him sound very much like Nixon.

No American President has been what De Gaulle was, of course. Perhaps combine Eisenhower and FDR and you get something like him.

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Was Nixon really hated by congressional democrats before the Watergate ? Hell, he basically governed like a democrat, on domestic issues at least.

That's not really true, despite the perception. He didn't win the whole South by adopting the principles of Hubert Humphrey's Democratic Party.