Foreign policy of the François Mitterrand administration maintaining as many options as possible until forced to pursue a particular course. However, once he made a choice he kept his ministers on a tight leash. Defense Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement lost his ministry over his opposition to French participation in the First Gulf War. Initially, Mitterrand, like British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was vary of German reunification, fearing that it would lead to Germany gaining too much power. He was reluctant to take action because Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev warned it would lead to a military coup d'état in the Soviet Union. Mitterrand did speak in favour of
Death of Marilyn Monroe documentary "Marilyn: Say Goodbye to the President" (1985), and in a 26-minute segment produced for ABC's "20/20". The "20/20" segment was never aired, as the channel's news executive Roone Arledge decided that the claims made in it required more evidence to back them up. In retaliation, Summers alleged that Arledge's decision was influenced by pressure from the Kennedys. In the 1990s, two new books alleged again that Monroe was murdered: Peter Brown and Patte Barham's "Marilyn: The Last Take" (1992) and Donald H. Wolfe's "The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe" (1998). Neither presented much new evidence but relied extensively on