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...Laurent hesitated, then asked the advice of the late Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop pf Quebec. The cardinal urged him to take the job, pointing out that as a symbol of national unity in wartime it was important to have a prominent French Canadian in the cabinet. On the day St. Laurent accepted the post, a new granddaughter was born in a Quebec hospital. Louis St. Laurent traveled over from Ottawa to see the baby, stood over her crib and mused aloud: "For myself, I may be making a mistake, but perhaps in the long run this child will benefit...
After work, St. Laurent spends the evening on state papers, listening to the radio, or reading (usually newspapers and magazines). Sometimes he works crossword puzzles. In the absence of Madame St. Laurent, who spends some of her time in Quebec, his apartment is kept by Mrs. Anne Parr-Morley, a middle-aged Englishwoman. "When I ask him what he wants for a meal," she says, "he almost always says 'Oh, just fix me some eggs.' " He also likes macaroni & cheese and chicken. St. Laurent, though no teetotaler, seldom takes a drink at home, even less often entertains anyone outside...
When St. Laurent first came to Ottawa, he said with a trace of pride: "I know nothing of politics or politicians." The boast was not entirely true. As a boy, he worked as a part-time clerk in his father's general store in the Quebec village of Compton (pop. 1,000). Those were the days when Sir Wilfrid Laurier was leader of the Liberal Party. Young Louis lent an ear to all the hot & heavy political talk around the cracker barrel, and was an ardent Laurier Liberal from the start...
...political dimout in St. Laurent's life began four years later when Louis' French Canadian father, Moïse, ran for the Quebec legislature as a Liberal and was beaten. Sorely disappointed, Moïse St. Laurent advised Louis to stay out of politics...
...Quebec City's Laval University, where he earned his law degree, Louis' work prompted the rector to make a flat prediction: "Le petit St. Laurent ira loin [Little St. Laurent will go far]." He won the Governor General's Medal and was offered a Rhodes Scholarship. Strong-willed young Louis, with plans already made to practice law, turned down the scholarship, went to work for one of Quebec's leading lawyers...