President John F. Kennedy’s Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, visited Ottawa on this date in 1963. He was in Canada’s capital to brief Prime Minster John Diefenbaker on the Soviet Union’s recent military buildup on the island of Cuba. At this point, however, it was not known if the Soviets were moving missiles onto the island, a move that when revealed a few months later would lead to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
You read can read a declassified American report on the meeting with PM Diefenbaker at this link: history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v10/d387
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.