Canada's 14th Prime Minister, Lester Bowles Pearson, was never quite comfortable as a public person. The trouble was, as he once recalled, "I was never able to make a platitude sound like a pronouncement, or an indiscretion sound like a platitude." It was a forgivable flaw. But it prevented Pearson, while head of Canada's Liberal Party, from ever winning a majority in Parliament. It also helped make his term as Prime Minister (from 1963 to 1968) one of the most boisterous and fractious in Canadian history. Yet even before he died last week of cancer in Ottawa, at the...
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