A courtly, white-haired stranger slipped into the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Ottawa one day last month. No one was home. A crew of painters was giving the big, slightly run-down sandstone mansion its first inside coat of paint in five years. The visitor poked among the sheeted furniture, inspected the fireplaces and the upstairs bedrooms. Before deciding whether or not to accept his appointment as the new U.S. Ambassador to Canada, R (for Robert) Douglas Stuart, 67, wanted a look at the house in which he and Mrs. Stuart would have to...
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