One of Canada’s greatest modern-era journalists, Knowlton Nash of the CBC, was born on this date in 1927. Journalism was indeed in his blood from his earliest years, with him starting his own newspaper and running a newsstand by the time he was ten years-old. Later, in life, he covered Washington and became one of the last reporters to interview Bobby Kennedy. He was to draw upon these experiences in the American capital to chronicle, in book form, the tense relationship between President John F. Kennedy and our own John Diefenbaker. His book, Kennedy and Diefenbaker: Fear and Loathing Across the Undefended Border, remains the go-to text on the relationship. In 1978 he started his work as anchor of CBC television’s The National. He was to serve as the network’s most famous and trusted face until he signed off, making way for Peter Mansbridge, in 1992. He passed into history in 2014 at age 86.  Journalist, broadcast, historian, it is a pleasure to mark the life and legacy of Mr. Nash today. caption id="attachment_592534" align="alignleft" width="489" Knowlton Nash/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.