319. Editorial Note
Prime Minister and Mrs. Diefenbaker, accompanied by Robert Bryce, Secretary of the Canadian Cabinet, and Henry Basil O. Robinson, Foreign Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister, arrived in Washington at noon on June 3. The Prime Minister met privately with the President from 3:15 to 4:20 and then from 4:20 to 5:45 with their principal advisers. Diefenbaker left Washington at 9 a.m. on June 4.
The most extensive collection of materials relating to the visit is in Department of State, Conference Files: Lot 64 D 559, CF 1709 and 1710, including briefing papers, schedules, chronologies, and follow-up papers. A smaller collection of documentation on the visit is in the Eisenhower Library, Project Clean Up.
Only the memorandum of the Prime Minister’s conversation with the President is printed here (Document 320). For Diefenbaker’s account of the visit, see One Canada, pages 158–166.