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Lennons Christmas message

In December 1969 John and Yoko met with Premiere Pierre Trudeau in Ottawa. This was at the beginning of Johns Bed In campaign.

From the Ottawa Journal:

Lennon emerged from the 50-minute interview with the PM today and declared that if more world leaders were like Mr. Trudeau it wouldn't be necessary to worry about peace. Lennon, accompanied by his wife Yoko Ono, called on Mr. Trudeau in his Centre Block office at 11 a.m. It was intended to be a 10 or 15 minute interview -- it lasted 50 minutes. Smile, clap hands and hope and the world will find peace."

That, in brief, was the Christmas message the Lennon's - John and Yoko - offered Saturday.

Both agreed their way of achieving peace may be overly-simple but said peace is a "very simple thing."

"Peace is no violence, no frustration, no fear," John Lennon said during an interview to be shown at Christmas day by the CBC television network.

"If I smile at you, you're liable to smile back," he told the interviewer. "We're smiling at the world."