"Dashingly handsome" Turner was PM for a total of 79 days, and lead his party to the worst defeat ever suffered for a governing party in the federal parliament. He was an old-fashioned traditionalist in style and substance, a wooden debater who was eviscerated by Mulroney in the '84 debate.
The "weedy, little balding man" was PM for 16 years. His Gallic flair and indifference to the political correctness at the time caught the imagination of the boomers, who were young and idealistic back then and were ready to say goodbye to the anciene regime.
Turner was yesterday. Trudeau was tomorrow.