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President, Richard Nixon, was in Ottawa on this date in 1972. The highlight of the Presidential visit was his address to a Joint Session of our Parliament.
At a private dinner hosted by Canada’s Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Nixon even proposed a toast to our PM’s baby son, a kid named Justin. He asked his hosts and his own delegation to raise their glasses in toast to a future Canadian Prime Minister!President Richard Nixon addresses a joint session of the Canadian Parliament
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.
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