Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoopla & Circus. Pearson, in the rhetoric of Kennedy (which has become the prevailing international style), promised to "get Canada moving again, moving forward economically and back into the councils of the world." Once he remarked: "It has been said that I am not able to move people to tears or excitement. Quite probably that is true." Unwilling to make hard, unqualified statements, ill at ease in the glare of klieg lights when he mounted a platform, quick and most effective in small groups, Pearson established little rapport with the voters, often projected a sense of thoughtful indecision. "The thing that...
...proposed TV debate between the competitors never came off. "I have no competitors," said Diefenbaker. And Pearson, in one of the best lines of the campaign, answered: "I would say to the Prime Minister, in the most kindly way possible, that he must not let failure go to his head...
...than any that Kennedy and Nixon had fought over in 1960. The question of nuclear warheads, though it got most of the headline attention, was largely a sham debate. More basic was troubled Canada's need to set a new economic course, and along with this was what Pearson called "the major issue which faces all Canadians today"-the fissures that have developed between the one-third of the nation that is French, and the English majority...
...campaign, Pearson promised to confront both issues. With his imminent accession as Canada's 14th Prime Minister, he had a chance to do so. After a lifetime in education and diplomacy, he had turned to the new trade of politics. Now he had the chance to prove that politics is the art of the possible...
Empty Bedpans. Until he entered politics, Lester Pearson had been something of a golden boy, a grinning, bow-tied diplomat liked by almost everyone who knew him, and admired for his talents for conciliation. He led the kind of life in which the breaks seemed to happen to him without vulgar effort on his part...