Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson announced his resignation plans on December 14, 1967 after serving nearly five-years as Prime Minister. A week later, on December 22, Time Magazine reported on Pearson’s decision for their American readers.
“At 70, ‘Mike’ Pearson, Canada’s 14th Prime Minister, its seventh Liberal Party leader and its first Nobel Peace Prize laureate (for helping resolve the 1956 Suez crisis), intends to retire from public life early next year,” Time reported. “His announcement was the second big upheaval in Canadian politics this year. Only three months ago, Pearson’s bitter septuagenarian foe, John Diefenbaker, was forced by his colleagues to yield the Conservative leadership.”
You can read Time’s coverage in full at this link.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.