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U.S. officials lionized Pompidou and his ministers during the Nixon administration. These attentions resulted from Nixon and Kissinger’s admiration for de Gaulle, Pompidou’s mentor, and aimed at increasing the number of “special relationships” between the United States and selected European allies, for fear that a strongly united European Community might become too independent from Washington. Notes taken by Jobert during Cabinet sessions show that Pompidou tried to use his privileged status to induce Nixon to stabilize currencies—so as to maintain a slight undervaluation of the franc toward the mark—, and to transfer the MIRV technology to French nuclear forces. His failure on both counts explain the increased tensions between France and the United States during the last year of the Pompidou presidency.