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This book is dedicated

in respectful friendship to

J. Kirk Howard

in tribute to his publication of books

defining Canada for Canadians

over the past half century

Table of Contents

Chronological List of Foreign Leaders Addressing Parliament, 1917 to 2016

1. Minister of Justice and Former Prime Minister of France Ren Viviani (May 12, 1917).

2. Foreign Secretary and Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Arthur Balfour (May 28, 1917).

3. Prime Minister Robert Menzies of Australia (May 7, 1941).

4. Prime Minister Winston Churchill of the United Kingdom (December 30, 1941).

5. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Anthony Eden of the United Kingdom (April 1, 1943).

6. President Edvard Bene of Czechoslovakia (June 3, 1943).

7. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Wife of the Leader of the Republic of China (June 16, 1943).

8. President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the United States (August 25, 1943).

9. Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia (June 1, 1944).

10. Prime Minister Peter Fraser of New Zealand (June 30, 1944).

11. President Charles de Gaulle of Free France (July 11, 1944).

12. Prime Minister Clement Attlee of the United Kingdom (November 19, 1945).

13. President Harry S. Truman of the United States (June 11, 1947).

14. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India (October 24, 1949).

15. Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan (May 31, 1950).

16. President Vincent Auriol of France (April 5, 1951).

17. President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States (November 13, 1953).

18. Prime Minister Anthony Eden of the United Kingdom (February 6, 1956).

19. President Giovanni Gronchi of Italy (March 5, 1956).

20. President Sukarno of Indonesia (June 5, 1956).

21. Prime Minister Guy Mollet of France (March 4, 1957).

22. President Theodor Heuss of the Federal Republic of Germany (June 2, 1958).

23. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of the United Kingdom (June 13, 1958).

24. President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States (July 9, 1958).

25. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (July 21, 1958).

26. President John F. Kennedy of the United States (May 17, 1961).

27. Secretary-General U Thant of the United Nations (May 26, 1964).

28. President Richard M. Nixon of the United States (April 14, 1972).

29. President Luis Echeverra of Mexico (March 30, 1973).

30. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India (June 19, 1973).

31. Prime Minister Masayoshi hira of Japan (May 5, 1980).

32. President Jos Lpez Portillo of Mexico (May 26, 1980).

33. President Ronald Reagan of the United States (March 11, 1981).

34. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom (September 26, 1983).

35. Premier Zhao Ziyang of the Peoples Republic of China (January 17, 1984).

36. President Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico (May 8, 1984).

37. Secretary-General Javier Prez de Cullar of the United Nations (March 7, 1985).

38. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan (January 13, 1986).

39. President Ronald Reagan of the United States (April 6, 1987).

40. President Franois Mitterrand of France (May 25, 1987).

41. Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (May 10, 1988).

42. Chancellor Helmut Kohl of the Federal Republic of Germany (June 16, 1988).

43. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom (June 22, 1988).

44. President Chaim Herzog of Israel (June 27, 1989).

45. King Hussein of Jordan (October 11, 1989).

46. Deputy President of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela (June 18, 1990).

47. President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of Mexico (April 8, 1991).

48. President Boris Yeltsin of the Russian Federation (June 19, 1992).

49. President Bill Clinton of the United States (February 23, 1995).

50. President Ernesto Zedillo of Mexico (June 11, 1996).

51. President Nelson Mandela of South Africa (September 24, 1998).

52. President Vclav Havel of the Czech Republic (April 29, 1999).

53. Prime Minister Tony Blair of the United Kingdom (February 22, 2001).

54. Secretary-General Kofi Annan of the United Nations (March 9, 2004).

55. President Vicente Fox of Mexico (October 25, 2004).

56. Prime Minister John Howard of Australia (May 18, 2006).

57. President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan (September 22, 2006).

58. President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine (May 26, 2008).

59. President Felipe Caldern of Mexico (May 27, 2010).

60. Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom (September 22, 2011).

61. Aga Khan IV (February 27, 2014).

62. President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine (September 17, 2014).

63. President Franois Hollande of France (November 3, 2014).

64. President Barack Obama of the United States (June 29, 2016).

Introduction: Ourselves as Others See Us

O ratory is an art inseparable from politics. From Demosthenes to Nelson Mandela, from the Lyceum in Athens to the House of Commons in Ottawa, from courtrooms and stadiums to assembly halls and television studios, the spoken word animates society and stirs us to action. Orators share with audiences how they see the world.

Some speeches quickly fall into the dustbin of history. Others gain lustre in hindsight. Yet none can be judged, truly, apart from its times. Demosthenes is regarded by some as a patriot unable to persuade his declining city state to rise above self-seeking and take recuperative action, but as A.N.W. Saunders concludes: He was too great an orator to be always unsuccessful, even though the times were against him. *

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