Author: Joe ClarkPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 3
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Text of Eulogy Delivered ... at the Burial Service of the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker
Author: Joe ClarkText of Eulogy Delivered by Prime Minister Joe Clark at the Burial Service of the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker
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As part of the Prime Minister of Canada (1867-1996) online project, Industry Canada provides the text of the eulogy given at the burial service of Canadian Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker (1895-1979). Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark (1939- ) gave the eulogy on August 22, 1979, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Diefenbaker served as prime minister from 1957 to 1963.
Statement ... on the Death of the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker
Author: Joe ClarkJoint Communique on the Death of the Right Honourable John G. Diefenbaker
Author: Annual Premiers' Conference, Aug. 15-18, 1979Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 5
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Statement on the Death of the Right Hon. John G. Diefenbaker
Author: John G. DiefenbakerState funeral
Author: Canada. Ministère du Secrétariat d'ÉtatPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Polk
Author: Walter R. BornemanPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 158836772X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president often overshadowed in image but seldom outdone in accomplishment. James K. Polk occupied the White House for only four years, from 1845 to 1849, but he plotted and attained a formidable agenda: He fought for and won tariff reductions, reestablished an independent Treasury, and, most notably, brought Texas into the Union, bluffed Great Britain out of the lion’s share of Oregon, and wrested California and much of the Southwest from Mexico. On reflection, these successes seem even more impressive, given the contentious political environment of the time. In this unprecedented, long-overdue warts-and-all look at Polk’s life and career, we have a portrait of an expansionist president and decisive statesman who redefined the country he led, and we are reminded anew of the true meaning of presidential accomplishment and resolve.
The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs
Author: George W. BallPublisher: Plunkett Lake Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 479
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During his long career as a diplomat, international lawyer, statesman and investment banker, George Ball interrogated Albert Speer at the end of World War II, worked with Jean Monnet to build Europe, supervised the rescue of hostages in the Congo, advised President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis and, as Undersecretary of State in the Johnson and Kennedy administrations, was an early and consistent opponent of America’s involvement in Vietnam. “Clarity, serenity and precision are the marks of this major contribution to an understanding of American foreign policy during the past 40 years. The book deserves to be compared with Dean Acheson’s Present at the Creation (but less self-satisfied) and George Kennan’s Memoirs (but less introverted). Although the author is best known to the general public for his opposition to American military involvement in Vietnam, the historian will find his discussion of European issues the most interesting part of the book.” — Gaddis Smith, Foreign Affairs “[A] first-rate memoir of American politics and foreign policy over half a century. It is literate, lively and amusing, and in places it clarifies basic questions about the foreign policy of the United States... The Past Has Another Pattern is a colorful and thought provoking tour of the recent and not-so-recent past, conducted by a skillful guide.” — Daniel Yergin, The New York Times “[O]ne of the great, examined public lives of our time.” — Kirkus “A distinguished lawyer and public servant with experience of Presidents stretching from Roosevelt to Reagan, [George Ball] has written an impressive book of memoirs.” — Douglas Johnson, London Review of Books “A few years ago I read some 70 volumes of biography and autobiography as a Pulitzer Prize juror. George Ball’s memoirs are everything that most of the art is not. While he does not neglect his achievement, he is candid on the things that went wrong. His public life has provided him with a very great deal of very great importance to tell. He writes admirably well. And much of his story is amusing. This year there will, I promise, be no other biography that will be as good.” — John Kenneth Galbraith “George Ball is that rarity — a distinguished public servant who can write; and his memoir is not only indispensable for the historian but absorbing for the general reader.” — Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Visible Symbols
Author: University of Alberta. Canadian Institute of Ukrainian StudiesPublisher: CIUS Press
ISBN: 9780920862278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Counselor
Author: Theodore C. SorensonPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061732621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history. Sorensen returns to January 1953, when he and the freshman senator from Massachusetts began their extraordinary professional and personal relationship. Rising from legislative assistant to speechwriter and advisor, the young lawyer from Nebraska worked closely with JFK on his most important speeches, as well as his book Profiles in Courage. Sorensen encouraged the junior senator's political ambitions—from a failed bid for the vice presidential nomination in 1956 to the successful presidential campaign in 1960, after which he was named Special Counsel to the President. Sorensen describes in thrilling detail his experience advising JFK during some of the most crucial days of his presidency, from the decision to go to the moon to the Cuban Missile Crisis, when JFK requested that the thirty-four-year-old Sorensen draft the key letter to Khrushchev at the most critical point of the world's first nuclear confrontation. After Kennedy was assassinated, Sorensen stayed with President Johnson for a few months before leaving to write a biography of JFK. In 1968 he returned to Washington to help run Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. Through it all, Sorensen never lost sight of the ideals that brought him to Washington and to the White House, working tirelessly to promote and defend free, peaceful societies. Illuminating, revelatory, and utterly compelling, Counselor is the brilliant, long-awaited memoir from the remarkable man who shaped the presidency and the legacy of one of the greatest leaders America has ever known.