Table of Contents

List of Speeches
Foreword by Kirsten Hillman, Ambassador of Canada to the United States
Preface by Maryscott Greenwood
Introduction by Arthur Milnes

FRIENDSHIP
Hopeful Renewal
President Barack Obama (2016)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (2016)
A Friend in Need
President Jimmy Carter (1980)
President Jimmy Carter (2011)
Early Days
Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier (1899)
Vice President Charles Fairbanks (1908)
Prime Minister Robert Borden (1912)
William Lyon Mackenzie King (1913)
President Warren G. Harding (1923)
Bosom Buddies
Brian Mulroney (2004)
President George H.W. Bush (1999)
Joe Clark
President Bill Clinton (2002)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (2016)
Brian Mulroney (2018)

FRICTIONS
The Times They Are A-Changing
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson (1965)
President Richard Nixon (1972)
Economic Tensions
Prime Minister Paul Martin (2005)
President Barack Obama (2015)
Personal Touch
President Donald J. Trump (2018)

AT WAR
Allied Against the Axis Powers
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1943)
The Cold War Era
President Harry S. Truman (1947)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953)
A New World Order
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (2001)
President George W. Bush (2004)
Standing Together Against Tyranny
Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper (2007)
Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper (2011)

AT WORK
Building Bridges — and Highways and Seaways and …
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (1927)
Vice President Charles Dawes (1927)
President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959)
Free Trade: Taking the Leap of Faith
President Ronald Reagan (1987)
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (1988)
President George H.W. Bush (1991)
President George H.W. Bush (1992)
The Quebec Question
President Bill Clinton (1999)
“A Permanent Reality”
Senator John F. Kennedy (1957)
One Canada
Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1977)
New Challenges, New Approaches
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (2019)

AT PLAY — HOLIDAYING IN EACH OTHER’S NATION
President Theodore Roosevelt (1916)
President William Howard Taft (1926)
Sir Robert Borden (1934)
Sir Robert Borden (1936)
Home Away from Home
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
President Richard Nixon (1972)
President George H.W. Bush (1997)

TOASTS AND TRIBUTES
Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier (1898)
Tributes at a Time of Loss
Ambassador Lester B. Pearson (1945)
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson (1963)
NDP Leader Tommy Douglas (1963)
President Richard Nixon (1972)
President Gerald R. Ford (2001)
Memories and Reflections
Brian Mulroney (2007)
President Bill Clinton (1995)
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999)
President George W. Bush (2008)
Prime Minister Stephen Harper (2009)
President Barack Obama (2009)
President Donald J. Trump (2017)
A New Old Friend
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (2021)
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (2021)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (2021)
Entre Nous
Vice President Kamala Harris (2020)
Vice President Kamala Harris and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (2021)
Aligned and Allied: The Two Michaels

Timeline of Prime Ministers and Presidents, 1865–2022
Conclusion by Scott Reid
Afterword by The Hon. Kelly Craft
Acknowledgements from Arthur Milnes Acknowledgements from Maryscott Greenwood
About the Editors
Image Credits
Index

About the Author

Arthur Milnes is a journalist and public historian and served as a speech writer for Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He has edited volumes about the presidencies of George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, and the leadership of prime ministers Sir John A. Macdonald and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and other Canadian leaders. He also served as research assistant to the Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney on his bestselling memoirs. Arthur lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Maryscott Greenwood is the chief executive officer of the Canadian American Business Council and a partner at Crestview Strategy U.S., a public affairs consultancy. A former U.S. diplomat appointed by President Bill Clinton, Scotty is a champion for the Canada-U.S. relationship and serves on corporate and philanthropic boards. She lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Scott Reid served as director of communications and senior advisor to former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin from 2003 to 2006. He is the co-owner and principal of Feschuk.Reid, providing strategic and executive communications to leaders in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors. He also serves as an on-air analyst for CTV News, Newstalk 1010AM, and Bell Media while writing for a variety of leading media publications. Scott lives in Toronto.