http://cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/2000/09/07/trudeau000907
I sincerely hope that he will pull through whatever is ailing him.
PET is a monument in Canada, this country's greatest Prime Minister and the Canadian I admire most. I was 11 when he first got elected riding the wave of Trudeaumania and I worked for his liberal Party in 2 elections. Here was an energetic politician of brilliant intellect and charisma, a man born of two cultures, with a vision of tolerance and inclusion, a true federalist and a true liberal. In my youth, I admired him as much for his political ideas and achievements as for his style, vitality and arrogance. Here was a Jesuit-educated, skinny dipping Prime Minister with a black belt in judo, dating Barbra Streisand and Liona Boyd, amongst others, a man truly hated by Nixon (whom he had told to f*ck off on two occasions, one private and one not so private) and reciprocating it in droves , the first western leader to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, a man who could do a pirouette right behind Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, a man who showed the bird to unruly crowds and who stared down those damned separatists in the 1968 Saint Jean-Baptiste parade.
Short biographies for nonCanadians:
http://www.tceplus.com/trudeau.htm
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=00C5B000
Much of what Canada stands for today, we owe to him.
He will be 81 next month. I hope that this is not serious.
This Little Bird (Marianne Faithfull)
I sincerely hope that he will pull through whatever is ailing him.
PET is a monument in Canada, this country's greatest Prime Minister and the Canadian I admire most. I was 11 when he first got elected riding the wave of Trudeaumania and I worked for his liberal Party in 2 elections. Here was an energetic politician of brilliant intellect and charisma, a man born of two cultures, with a vision of tolerance and inclusion, a true federalist and a true liberal. In my youth, I admired him as much for his political ideas and achievements as for his style, vitality and arrogance. Here was a Jesuit-educated, skinny dipping Prime Minister with a black belt in judo, dating Barbra Streisand and Liona Boyd, amongst others, a man truly hated by Nixon (whom he had told to f*ck off on two occasions, one private and one not so private) and reciprocating it in droves , the first western leader to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, a man who could do a pirouette right behind Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, a man who showed the bird to unruly crowds and who stared down those damned separatists in the 1968 Saint Jean-Baptiste parade.Short biographies for nonCanadians:
http://www.tceplus.com/trudeau.htm
http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=00C5B000
Much of what Canada stands for today, we owe to him.
He will be 81 next month. I hope that this is not serious.
This Little Bird (Marianne Faithfull)
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