Today is a sad day to mark if you, like me, are a fan of the late, great John Diefenbaker. It was on March 26, 1979, the 39^th anniversary of Mr. Diefenbaker’s first election to Parliament, that he delivered his final address in the House of Commons.  He called upon the House to support his motion calling for then U.S. President Jimmy Carter to receive the Nobel Peace Prize to honour the President’s incredible role in forging the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt.  MPs unanimously agreed with Dief and his motion passed. Twenty-years later, after I read Mr. Diefenbaker’s speech in praise of President Carter, I was proud to share the Hansard of the address with Carter while I was visiting Plains, GA.  He signed a copy of the Diefenbaker address for me, something I treasure to this day. caption id="attachment_544916" align="aligncenter" width="440" President Jimmy Carter signed Art Milnes' Hansard copy of former PM John Diefenbaker's final House of Commons address/caption 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.