All eyes were on Parliament Hill on this date in 1943 when President Franklin Roosevelt made history, becoming the first-ever U.S. President to address our Parliament. He delivered his speech in Ottawa at the conclusion of his famous talks with Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King – who acted as host of the two wartime leaders – at the first Quebec Conference.A unique aspect to FDR’s speech that historic day was the fact he made it before MPs, Senators and thousands of Canadians gathered outside on the grounds of Canada’s Parliament Buildings.“We have been forced to call out what we, in the United States, would call the sheriff’s posse,” he told his audience, “to break up the (Axis powers) in order that gangsterism may be eliminated in the community of nations. We are making sure – absolutely, irrevocably sure – that this time, the lesson is driven home to them once and for all. Yes, we are going to be rid of outlaws this time.”His speech served, once again, to cement the patrician-President from Hyde Park’s status amongst Canadians as one of the most beloved U.S. chief executives in the long history of Canadian-American relations.You can watch some of President Roosevelt’s Ottawa speech here.  And, to read the full text of the President's speech that day, click here.[caption id="attachment_581707" align="alignleft" width="245"] President Franklin D. Roosevelt[/caption]Birthday alerts: It’s a pleasure today to send out birthday greetings to Senator Peter Harder and Canadian historian Conrad Black.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.