The Ogdensburg Agreement was an agreement concluded between Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Heuvelton near Ogdensburg, New York on August 17, 1940.[1] It outlined a permanent plan for mutual defense overseas between the United States and Canada and established the Permanent Joint Board of Defense.
Regardless, their confidential tête-à-tête secured by state police and 200 soldiers happened Aug. 17, 1940, in Heuvelton. "Heuvelton agog with FDR's parley" read a headline in the Ogdensburg Journal.