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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Didn't Bill Clinton and Jean Chretien have a pretty good relationship? This speech Clinton gave to Parliament in 1995 seemed to imply that they were quite friendly:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...31/ai_16989060
It's not surprising that a Republican president would have a better relationship with a Conservative PM and a Democratic president would have more in common with a Liberal PM. That being said, the gap between Liberal-Republican is far greater than the one between Conservative-Democrat.
What your statement really boils down to is the fact that Nixon didn't like Trudeau and Bush Jr. didn't like Chretien and Martin. That's not exactly shocking, since most Canadians have a very unfavourable opinion of Nixon and Bush. |
Well it might feel good as a Canadian to dismiss the Nixon-Trudeau divide as 'Nixon being an unethical republican crook', but with the economic pyscho-babble coming out of Trudeau's mouth at the time combined with his communist sympathies in the middle of the Cold War and it's hard not to hold a good portion of the blame on Trudeau as well.