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During the 2000 presidential campaign Hegelin took his cause to the Reform Party and came close to snatching their nomination for the U.S Presidency . The next year , when the town 's highest political body , the Secret Council , announced the finalization of a treaty with the French monarchy , guild opposition and spontaneous street protests came close to overthrowing the Old Regime in Zurich . As usual , came close to exasperating my lab group with my insistence on close attention to the data . It brought down six French governments , led to the collapse of the Fourth Republic , returned de Gaulle to power , and came close to provoking a civil war on French soil . When the Joyce came close to pick them up they jumped in the water and never came up .