Fire And Ashes (2013)
“Bob Rae showed up to give us a hand and everyone laughed when he unloaded our television on camera and dropped it onto the driveway. In this and other rituals we sought to stitch together our relationship and offer the public at least the image of a team of rivals. Too much had happened between us to restore our friendship, but he was professional enough to understand that we had to behave as if we were playing on the same team.
As for Zsuzsanna and me, we’d never lived in a house so distinguis...hed. Between 1940 and 1945, it had been the home of the Queen of the Netherlands, then in exile during the Nazi occupation of her country. In my study there were pictures of the Queen as a little girl, and every spring the tulips the Dutch government had given Canada as a thank-you present for giving a home to the exiled royal family would burst into bloom all over Ottawa. Over the fireplace hung a magnificent gouache portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Liberal prime minister, a handsome and wily master of politics at the peak of his powers.MoreLess
As for Zsuzsanna and me, we’d never lived in a house so distinguis...hed. Between 1940 and 1945, it had been the home of the Queen of the Netherlands, then in exile during the Nazi occupation of her country. In my study there were pictures of the Queen as a little girl, and every spring the tulips the Dutch government had given Canada as a thank-you present for giving a home to the exiled royal family would burst into bloom all over Ottawa. Over the fireplace hung a magnificent gouache portrait of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Liberal prime minister, a handsome and wily master of politics at the peak of his powers.MoreLess
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