Prime Minister Mackenzie King was in Washington on this date in 1947 to hold talks with President Harry Truman and members of the American Administration. He started his day by heading from Blair House to a Washington hospital to visit his old friend, former U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The Nobel Peace Prize recipient was ailing and King dropped by to boost Hull’s spirits.
Hull, who remains the longest-serving Secretary of State in history, having held the post from 1933 to 1944 under President Franklin Roosevelt, had advice for Prime Minister King as they talked. He suggested strongly that King not remain in office too long and that he should definitely write his memoirs, as Hull himself had done.
You can read the full account of King’s talks with Secretary Hull and other leading Americans that day so long ago in Washington in the Mackenzie King diaries here.
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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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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.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.