Word: heureux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a slight grin, he continued: "Because we are in this beautiful part of Canada where French is principally spoken [the Queen had delivered part of her speech in French], will you permit me a single halting sentence of my Western prairie brand of that language -Je suis tres heureux de me retrouver parmi vous au Canada" (I am very happy to be with you in Canada again...
...precepts of life in official Washington, Congress should have reacted to a bureaucrat named Hervé L'Heureux like a fat man trying to get a burr out of his shirt. Not only does his name have a suspiciously foreign ring (actually he was born in New Hampshire), but the very fact that L'Heureux is a member of the State Department could have been enough to earn him the chill on the hill. Added to that, his job is one calculated to stir the suspicion of every politico who keeps an eye on the grand old flag...
...ruddy-faced, stocky; pipe-smoking Hervé L'Heureux is a man who knows more about the habits, eccentricities and problems of Congressmen than most Congressmen themselves. In the 1920s, an ex-sergeant of the A.E.F., he got a job running an elevator in the Capitol, and not only transported Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge in his car, but used it as a vantage point to absorb the lore and atmosphere of Capitol Hill...
Last month, as a result, Congress made its first exception to the Foreign Service Act of 1946. Both houses voted unanimously to keep L'Heureux in Washington for at least another year. Unknowingly, they also gave him a vacation. Last week, because Speaker Sam Rayburn had not signed the bill before the House's summer recess, L'Heureux was at home in Chevy Chase, improving his vacation hours by painting his ten-room house. This week, the ex-elevator boy will be back protecting what Congress described as "the best interests of national security...
...finally, L'Heureux has stated that persons who are or were Communist Party members, or affiliated with the Communist Party are considered excludable under the legislation...