America’s 37^th 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!You can watch an excerpt President Nixon’s speech to Parliament here.caption id="attachment_611198" align="alignleft" width="571" President Richard Nixon addresses a joint session of the Canadian Parliament/captionArthur 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.