Word: pearsons
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Impatient & Restless. In February, when the Liberals' Lester Pearson, 70, announced his plans to retire after five years in office, no fewer than 20 candidates went after his job, including eight Cabinet ministers. Trudeau was only one of several strong contenders (TIME, Feb. 16), but he quickly drew ahead of the field. After waging a tireless cross-country campaign, he came to last week's Liberal Party convention in Ottawa as a front runner. At week's end Trudeau was elected party leader on the fourth ballot by a vote of 1,203 to 954 over...
Trudeau's program will not depart dramatically from Pearson's policies. His toughest problem is Canada's constitutional crisis. Though Trudeau is a French Canadian and personally popular in Quebec, he is ideologically at odds with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson and other Quebecois who want a quasi-independent status for the French-speaking province. Trudeau strongly opposes French separatism and argues persuasively for a genuinely federal system. As he sees it, Quebec should surrender its demands for special status, and English Canada should give up its vision of Canada as an essentially English-dominated country. Trudeau also...
...politician, but this one seemed particularly persistent, perhaps because of the recollection of the Governor's rather abrupt divorce, and remarriage in 1963. The item appeared in print in a few places, but without Rockefeller's name. Then last week, with Rocky out of the race, Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson added the name...
...that Pearson-Anderson left it at that. Who, after all, had started the rumors? They said it was supporters of Richard Nixon, who has "compiled dossiers" on all possible Republican competitors for the presidency. "The rumor mill is going to play a part in the coming campaign," they declared solemnly, "and we write this to warn that the American public should be prepared for it." Disputing the Pearson-Anderson thesis, the New York Times said that the source of the rumors was not the Nixon camp but "aides of Governor George Romney...
...Liberal Party will choose Pearson's successor at a convention in April, and he will carry on as Prime Minister until he calls an election or the Conservative Party forces him to the polls. Already, campaign committees for Trudeau have sprung up in many cities, and a straw poll shows him leading other contenders for the nomination in five Toronto constituencies. The fact that Trudeau sat by Pearson's right hand throughout last week's conference gave him another boost. Three announced candidates for the nomination-Finance Minister Mitchell Sharp, 56, External Affairs Secretary Paul Martin...