Embattled federal Tory leader was in the hot seat on this date in 1983 during an appearance on Jack Webster’s legendary television interview show, Webster. As always, the famed Vancouver interviewer proved a tough questioner but Clark, the in the midst of the 1983 PC leadership race, held his own. You can watch the pair sparring at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H4LRJEvmmM
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.