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...cameras got action right away. Louis St. Laurent rose to make his first appearance in Parliament as Prime Minister and leader of the reigning Liberal Party. He was tense and nervous. Directly across the aisle from him sat George Alexander Drew, the new boss of the rival Progressive Conservative Party. St. Laurent started to read the traditional greeting. It turned out to be a backhanded slap at Conservative Party policy. "Politics . . . cheap politics," cried the Tory M.P.s...
...Liberals used the House opening as an occasion for a nationwide party rally. Twenty delegates from each of the nine provinces crowded into Ottawa's Château Laurier for an executive meeting of the National Liberal Federation. Before them, Leader St. Laurent shook off some of his reserve. "Our opponents will huff and they will puff," he said, "but . . . they will not blow this country off the course which our party and its leaders have...
Every evening Grand-Père St. Laurent, heavy-rimmed glasses perched on his nose, read to his grandchildren. Christmas Eve and Sunday morning the family went to Mass at Saint-Coeur-de-Marie, instead of St. Patrick's Church across the street from their house. They like the French sermons better than the English...
Each weekday morning Louis St. Laurent was up at 8:30. After breakfast, Chauffeur Franços Dion, who has been with the family 26 years, drove him to his old law office in the Price Building, where his two lawyer sons carry on the family practice. He chatted with them about their cases, talked with the local politicians who dropped in, kept in touch with Ottawa by phone. He turned aside political questions. When a reporter asked him if he thought that he would be reelected, he cracked: "I think people are tired of extraordinary men and of extraordinary...
...Prime Minister made only two public appearances. The Quebec Bar Association gave him a dinner; he went to the Liberal Reform Club to hand out gifts to 45 orphans. This week, there would be a family farewell party, for which Madame St. Laurent would fix a 29-lb. turkey. Then Grand-Père St. Laurent would head back to Ottawa...