Canada’s wartime Prime Minister, Mackenzie King, was in Washington on this date in 1942 for meetings with President Franklin Roosevelt. America had only entered the war the previous December. After two days of talks, King wrote in his famous diary that he had very much enjoyed his interactions with FDR. “What I noticed all through,” he wrote, “was how much my own method of proceeding resembles his in some particulars. The need to get away from people, to get quiet and to turn to the country, etc. He said he would be planting trees during the next few days.”  King also took time to note that when he arrived at the White House and was ushered in to see Roosevelt “the President was sitting working in his shirt sleeves, white shirt, no vest or coat. Laughed a little about his attire.”