Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dislike and suspicion of the press that was displayed in the Cow Palace is by no means entirely unjustified. Segments of the press have sometimes sounded as extremist as any Goldwater extremist. Thus Drew Pearson began a column last week with the observation: "The smell of fascism has been in the air at this convention." Joe Alsop, who opined last March that "no serious Republican politician, even of the most Neanderthal type, any longer takes Goldwater seriously," now declared it a "fact" that "many Goldwater enthusiasts are genuine fanatics, like the majority of his delegates...
Kites & Flags. When Pearson's government recently hinted that "the realities of the situation" might force Canada to depart from its policy of nonrecognition of Red China, Diefenbaker rose in Commons to demand "whether this was just a case of kite flying, or does it represent a change of viewpoint on the part of the government?" Replied Pearson: "It does not represent a change of viewpoint." "So it is kite flying," snapped Diefenbaker. When Pearson revealed in the House that the government is making a study of the growing secessionist pressures in French Quebec and how secession would affect...
Even so seemingly minor a matter as a Canadian Broadcasting Co. TV film of a day in the life of the Prime Minister threw Parliament into a tizzy. Conservatives charged that Pearson had first tried to censor the film, then persuaded CBC to kill it altogether-meanwhile sarily hesitant replies (he had seen an early version but not the final version) left Canadians with the vaguely uneasy feeling that perhaps there was something to the fuss after all. Said an exasperated member of the Pearson-supporting New Democrats: "Here we have a situation that could have been cleared up right...
...passed only five relatively minor bills. Completely neglected in the leaderless confusion were such ma jor items as a new pension plan for Canada, armed forces unification, a federal student aid program, and a twelve-mile fishing limit. In Ottawa's press gallery, newsmen long endeared to Pearson are starting to make the same acid wisecracks they once leveled at Diefenbaker ("Well, fellows, we've got a government to overthrow"). Wrote Diefenbaker Biographer Peter Newman (Renegade in Power: The Diefenbaker Years) in the current issue of Maclean's magazine: "Although there have been almost none...
...Pearson to cut the parliamentary Gordian knot and reassert his flagging leadership would be to call an election, in hopes of producing a clear Liberal majority. But the polls are discouraging; the Liberals would probably win, yet only enough to form another fragile minority government. "Canadians do not want another election," said Pearson. "I do not want an election. The Cabinet and caucus do not want an election. Though it is getting harder and harder, we remain determined to carry on as if we had a clear majority...