It was on this date in 2007 that President George W. Bush was in Ottawa for talks with then Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon. While talks between the three North America leaders were, as always, important enough, a side bar of the President's time in Ottawa is worth mentioning for my fellow fans of political history. With the clock running down on the Bush presidency, and the task of building a Presidential library and archives looming, the 43^rd President of the United States visited Library and Archives Canada. Staff there – in many ways the unsung heroes of the study and promotion of Canadian history – showed Mr. Bush some of Canada’s advanced preservation techniques regarding archival collections and documents.  The American chief executive was also shown some of Canada’s most significant artworks and other treasures during his time at LAC. Having been there myself, if you are ever in Dallas I recommend taking the time to visit the George W. Bush Presidential Centre. It is high-tech, full of interactive exhibits and indeed the jewel in the American presidential library and archives system. Indeed, as you will see if in Texas, President Bush obviously learned a great deal he was able to share with his library’s planners after visiting Canada’s national archives. caption id="attachment_580328" align="alignleft" width="640" George W. Bush Presidential Center, Dallas, Texas/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.