In response to Nixon's calling him "that asshole" on the White House tapes, he responded "I've been called worse things by better people"; he also referred to Pentagon officials in the Reagan administration as "pipsqueaks."
In response to Nixon's calling him "that asshole" on the White House tapes, he responded "I've been called worse things by better people"; he also referred to Pentagon officials in the Reagan administration as "pipsqueaks." He invoked the War Measures Act in 1970 in response to the threat of Québecois separatism. His government was responsible for instituting official bilingualism, the patriation of the Canadian constitution, and the creation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Known for being idiosyncratic, he wore sandals to the House of Commons, slid down banisters, and once turned a pirouette behind the back of Queen Elizabeth. For ten points, name this Canadian prime minister, often described as "flamboyant."
In response to Nixon's calling him "that asshole" on the White House tapes, he responded "I've been called worse things by better people"; he also referred to Pentagon officials in the Reagan administration as "pipsqueaks."
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott {Trudeau}