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Charles Helou

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Charles Hélou (December 25, 1912, Beirut) was president of Lebanon from 1964 to 1970.

Hélou was a graduate of St. Joseph's University and then received a law degree from the French Faculty of law in Beirut. He was a newspaper man by trade, founding two French-language newspapers, L'Eclair du Nord and Le Jour. His first government post was as ambassador to the Vatican in 1947, and he later served in the cabinet as minister of justice and health (1954-55) and minister of education (1964) before becoming president. The main struggle during his term as president was the ongoing tension between the Christian presidency and army command and the Arab prime minister, Rashid Karami, over whether to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) to operate from bases in Lebanon. Hélou resisted this for years, but finally agreed to coordination between the PLO and the military in 1969 to avert a crisis.

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