Canada’s 18th Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, started a trip to Washington on this date in 1988. He was there to hold talks with outgoing President Ronald Reagan and to cement ties with the latter’s likely successor, Vice President George H.W. Bush. Most importantly, Mulroney became only the second Canadian Prime Minister to address the U.S. Congress. You can watch Mulroney’s historic address at this link.
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.