Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tour, covering New York, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine and extending up to New Brunswick, took shape two weeks ago, when the President agreed to meet Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson on Campobello Island in the Bay of Fundy for a cornerstone-laying ceremony at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt International Park. Johnson saw a chance to pan some votes before meeting Pearson and, though his trip was solemnly billed as nonpolitical, his itinerary carried him through five congressional districts where freshman Democrats are threatened...
Conference at Campobello. Johnson finally called it a day after a speech in Lewiston, Me., then boarded the Northampton, a seaborne command post crammed with communications gear, in Portland for an overnight cruise. From the ship's deck, he was to helicopter to meet Pearson at Campobello, F.D.R.'s summer retreat. Johnson and Pearson planned to confer privately for an hour, touching on such topics as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Viet Nam, where Canada is one of three nations on the International Control Commission, then to lay the cornerstone for a reception center in front...
...Columnist Drew Pearson, who was close to F.D.R.'s White House, reported that Eleanor Roosevelt chanced to discover the romance "when, driving through Virginia, she saw her husband and Lucy in a parked car"-apparently in Arlington, roughly where the Pentagon now stands, in an area popular during World War I both for horseback riding and as a trysting spot...
Politics lie behind Sharp's restrictive bank proposal. With Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson expected to retire in a year or two, Sharp's hopes of succeeding him as Liberal Party leader partly hinge on his winning support among Gordon's followers. It was Gordon who originally proposed the bill against foreign banks. By carrying on with it, Sharp stands to build his party strength. Still, he has misgivings that the bill's retroactive provisions, which could force First National City Bank to sell 75% of its stock in its Canadian subsidiary, might damage Canada...
...that it was "just like the Alamo." And he records some presidential double-edged scorn: Handing the Dominican government back to Juan Bosch, said Johnson, "would be like turning it over to Arthur Schlesinger Jr." Geyelin alludes to Johnson's scorching private appraisals of De Gaulle, Pearson, Shastri, Ayub Khan, U Thant. He is more explicit about the President's sentiments toward the Organization of American States; using dashes in place of a four-letter word, Geyelin quotes L.B.J. as saying, "The OAS couldn't pour - - out of a boot if instructions were written on the heel...