Word: trudeau
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Being a Rolling Stones fan is no way to make headlines-unless your name happens to be Margaret Trudeau. Then it is easy. All Margaret had to do was attend a couple of rare nightclub performances by that bad, bad band at Toronto's El Mocambo and mingle with the boys afterward. Trouble was, the first show coincided with the sixth anniversary of Margaret's wedding to Canada's Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 57. Leaving husband and three children in Ottawa, Margaret, 28, had checked in at the Stones' hotel and stayed up with...
Carter had been well briefed, the Prime Minister said. He could conceptualize, a point obviously appealing to the intellectual Trudeau, who loves history and broad views. Trudeau conceded that the two men differed in their approach to human rights, to the Soviet dissidents. Trudeau felt the need to keep his voice lower. He hinted that maybe Carter had been a bit surprised at the response to his letter to Andrei Sakharov. But there was also a touch of admiration for a President who based important actions on the simple criterion of "what was right...
...Trudeau said as much when he went before a joint session of Congress and, doubling his fist, declared, "Canada's unity will not be fractured!" Ironically, he may be the last foreign leader to make such an appearance for some time. House Speaker Tip O'Neill considers such intrusions in the congressional routine "a waste of time," and even Trudeau's eloquence did not change his mind...
...graceful dining room of Blair House, Trudeau pondered the lessons from Thucydides and Macaulay, that all countries must finally change. Just then his young wife Margaret entered the room, fresh and smiling from a walk in the sunlight. With her at his side and with Friend Jimmy Carter's exhortations ringing in his ears, Pierre Elliott Trudeau headed back into the fray...
...again. For the second week in a row, the First Child, decked out in her best long party dress, turned up as her parents' guest at a state dinner with something to read while she ate. At last week's party for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, she pored over The Story of the Gettysburg Address and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Her dinner partner, Senator Edmund Muskie, gently interrupted her reading to coax her to eat her spinach timbale. Later, with a flourish, Amy gave Muskie a souvenir-her place card, on which she had inscribed...