Word: campagnolo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nervously to cover his embarrassment. His oral flubs became legion. "It's a great country where a man can come up, whatever his religion, whatever his sex," he told one group. His manual gaffes caused Turner even more trouble: he was shown on television patting Party President lona Campagnolo and another female Liberal on their posteriors, afterward explaining weakly that he was a "tactile politician...
...Tory tide pushed many prominent Liberals from their seats, including lona Campagnolo and 15 of Turner's 29 Cabinet ministers. In the postmortem, Turner's aides spoke bitterly of Trudeau. They blamed him for not quitting office sooner, thus affording Turner more time to build his record, and for weakening the party by ignoring its provincial roots. Asked what he thought of Turner's campaign, Trudeau blithely replied, "I don't really know. I've been on vacation." Said a top Liberal strategist: "Trudeau did not give a fig about the party. It was hard...
...spring training. Unemployment is running at 11%. Our dollar is teetering at 760 (U.S.). But what had surfaced as one of the most contentious election issues in the first month of the campaign was Prime Minister John Turner's having been seen to pat Liberal Party President lona Campagnolo on the bum. Actually, Turner's condescending gesture reeked more of country club bonhomie, circa 1950, than unbridled lechery. It would be worrying only if he were running for principal of a girls' high school. But Brian Mulroney, understandably, has made the most of it, puffed out with...
Although campaigning politicians are obliged to press the flesh, the hands-on policy of Prime Minister John Turner, 55, has many Canadian women up in arms. During the country's national elections, the Liberal Party leader was seen on national TV patting the backside of Party President Iona Campagnolo, who astutely took the matter into her own hands by returning the pat. In another meeting, Turner touched the same base with French Vice President Lise St.-Martin who gamely rallied behind her. At least, she declared, he is less cold aloof than his predecessor, Pierre Elliott...
...snowstorm in four years, Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 64, trudged home, took a sauna and "just made up my mind." Without bothering to notify the press or his own Members of Parliament, he coolly penned a resignation letter to the president of his ruling Liberal Party, Iona Campagnolo. Serving as Liberal leader, he wrote, "had been one of the joys of my life, but I now feel this is the appropriate time for someone else to assume this challenge...