Lester B. Pearson Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, PC, OM, CC, OBE (23 April 1897 – 27 December 1972) was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, soldier, and politician, who won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis. He was the 14th Prime Minister of Canada from 22 April 1963 to 20 April 1968, as the head of two back-to-back Liberal minority governments following elections in 1963 and 1965.During Pearson's time as Prime Minister, his Liberal minority governments introduced universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan, the Order of Canada, and the new Flag of Canada. Pearson also convened the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, and he struggled to keep Canada out of the Vietnam War. In 1967, his government passed Bill C-168, which abolished capital punishment in Canada de facto - by restricting it to a few capital offenses for which it was never used, and which themselves were abolished in 1976. With these accomplishments, together with his groundbreaking work at the United Nations and in international diplomacy, Pearson is generally considered among the most influential Canadians of the 20th century.
There can be no enduring and creative peace if people are unfree. The instinct for personal and national freedom cannot be destroyed, and the attempt to do so by totalitarian and despotic governments will ultimately make not only for internal trouble but for international conflict. (1957)
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n Asia hundreds of millions of people do now expect to eat and be free. They no longer will accept colonialism, destitution, and distress as preordained. That may be the most significant of all the revolutionary changes in the international social fabric of our times. . . . [W]ar and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe. If we ignore this, there will be no peace. (1957)
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I had none of the gifts of the actor who can play on people's emotions and produce the mass frenzy that leads not only to irrational support for good causes, but also for causes evil and dangerous. I have always suspected and distrusted those who could arouse the masses by working on their emotions, turning favor into frenzy, support into hysteria, and normally rational human beings into howling mobs. . . . But the exaggerated appeal to fanaticism, to a false and deceptive hope, or to a vision which cannot possibly be realized can result only in disillusionment -- this kind of thing, so common in today's politics, I have always disliked and distrusted, almost as much as I have abhorred the marketing of politicians and policies as though they were detergents or deodorants. (1972)
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As one who has known both the shelter of academic halls and the anonymous security of the civil service, I have at times had my own doubts about the wisdom of venturing forth, with wary shield and uncertain sword, among the lions in the open forum of party politics. But that's where the action is today. Without action we can't make progress, no matter how brilliant our thoughts may be. (1967)
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The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants and for peace like retarded pygmies.
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Fact
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Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for helping to resolve the Suez Canal crisis as Canada's Minister of External Affairs. Furthermore, he was the first Canadian to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, 1983 (charter member)
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Toronto's main international and domestic airport is named after him, Lester B. Pearson International Airport.
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Prime minister of Canada (1963-1968).
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Biography
1995
TV Series documentary
Himself
Helicopter Canada
1966
Documentary
Himself (opens Toronto's new City Hall) (voice, uncredited)
Issues and Answers
1963
TV Series
Himself
Front Page Challenge
1960
TV Series
Himself - Mystery Guest
Today
1960
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Jimmy MacDonald's Canada
2005
TV Mini-Series
Himself - Prime Minister of Canada
The Greatest Canadian
2004
TV Mini-Series documentary
The Making of a Leader (1919-1968)
1994
TV Movie documentary
Himself (uncredited)
The Canadian Federation
1981
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953
1979
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Addresses Canada-Hollywood Dinner (uncredited)
The Hecklers
1975
Documentary
Himself (uncredited)
Grierson
1973
Documentary
Himself
The Clouded Dawn
1962
Documentary
Himself - Standing Behind Truman
Known for movies
Front Page Challenge (1960) as Himself - Mystery Guest
Helicopter Canada (1966) as Himself (opens Toronto's new City Hall)
$700,000
