After over two decades in the PMO, PM Mackenzie King has finally passed the torch to Pearson. Apparently he wanted to go for a seventh election, but Cabinet put their foot down. Health isn't that great, as you saw during the annual Easter address...
You mean when he had trouble just walking to the podium, and then forgot half his speech (alright, maybe not quite half)?After over two decades in the PMO, PM Mackenzie King has finally passed the torch to Pearson. Apparently he wanted to go for a seventh election, but Cabinet put their foot down. Health isn't that great, as you saw during the annual Easter address...
After over two decades in the PMO, PM Mackenzie King has finally passed the torch to Pearson. Apparently he wanted to go for a seventh election, but Cabinet put their foot down. Health isn't that great, as you saw during the annual Easter address...
IOTL Mackenzie King preferred Lester Pearson to succeed him. Pearson refused, and St-Laurent took his place. King initially wanted to fight a seventh election in 1949 on "Peace, Prosperity, and Newfoundland" after the postwar welfare-state expansion from '45 onwards. The party and his rapidly declining health (he died on the first day of Korea) dictated otherwise.