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Prime Minister - President Affairs (Canada-U.S. Relations)


Pierre Trudeau (1980-1984) and Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)

Joe Clark (1979-1980) and Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)

  • President Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Joe Clark never officially met while the two were in office as President Carter had to cancel his visit to Ottawa due to the Iranian Hostage Crisis:
  • President Carter phoning Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark to thank Canada for their "tremendous exhibition of friendship and support" to help the six American diplomats safely escape Iran (1980):

Pierre Trudeau (1968-1979) and Richard Nixon (1969-1974)

John Diefenbaker (1957-1963) and John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)

John Diefenbaker (1957-1963) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)

  • International Journal Publication titled Dealing with Diefenbaker: Canada-US relations in 1958, which discusses the nationalist approach adopted by Diefenbaker (some refer to it as anti-Americanism):
  • July 1958 article from the New York Times on texts of Diefenbaker and Eisenhower Speeches in Canadian Parliament and the Canada-US conference to discuss economic problems between the natio