but at the big three conference with churchill and stalin when churchill and fdr committed to the may 1944 invasion of france, stalin said, well, who's going to be the supreme commander. they hemmed and hawed, they said we haven't selected one yet, and he said it's all nonsense until you select a supreme commander. and so on his way back to the united states, fdr says, okay, i get i've got to make a decision. and he flies to north africa, and he meets with eisenhower, and there's a photograph of the two of them in the jeep. and the expressions on their faces are so classic. and then this was one of these historic moments, you know? the fate of the war hung in the balance, who's going to be the commander. you see these two hen if realizing that they gave everything for their country. this is the moment that really captures it. >> i know that photograph well, and i love their faces. >> dawn, thank you very much for joining us today the here at home with the roosevelts, and i can't wait for you. >> masse mckinley, you are here because you worked of the organization and descendants of two

churchill put differently, he can't be trusted. one of the soviet sniper clocks working at a soviet embassy in canada defects to the west and defects with a huge bundle of explosive documents that reveal soviets have been spying on the american nuclear program, what is taking place with western allies developing a nuclear warhead. these two events are really important and the third thing, don't know how well known it is, george kennan, the famous diplomat in the american embassy in moscow writes his famous long telegram, in a similar tone to churchill set out the facts that the soviets cannot be trusted. in 1946 these three things happen, with haole continually banging on the drum, this is when truman begins to change his foreign-policy completely and you end up with the truman doctrine to protect countries threatened by the soviet union and followed by the marshall plan a dramatic turnaround in policy which is the idea to rebuild germany and rebuild germany in a democratic western form basically. everything begins to change and ha

montgomery in the british military and, of course, winston churchill. and he was in england planning for the d day invasion, winston churchill was, let's just say, in his face quite a bit. how did eisenhower balance all ndthese competing egos and agens and launch the most successful amphibious attack in thean worl? >>ha he knew he -- he didn't hae a big ego. i think that he was able to establish sort of diplomatic relationships within all of the other layers, all the other allieded commands. churchill himself, i think his innate diplomacy really showed well during this time for him. >> you have a new permanent exhibit at the eisenhower presidential library and museum, and one of the things you highlight there is directly connected togh d-day. do you want to talk about that? >> we do, sure. so we did a major renovation of our exhibit galleries recently. it just opened to the public last fall, and is we were able to sortnd of reimagine how we interpret d-day and eisenhower's involvement in the d-day planning. we have, at the eisenhower presidential librar

churchill put differently, he can't be trusted. one of the soviet sniper clocks working at a soviet embassy in canada defects to the west and defects with a huge bundle of explosive documents that reveal soviets have been spying on the american nuclear program, what is taking place with western allies developing a nuclear warhead. these two events are really important and the third thing, don't know how well known it is, george kennan, the famous diplomat in the american embassy in moscow writes his famous long telegram, in a similar tone to churchill set out the facts that the soviets cannot be trusted. in 1946 these three things happen, with haole continually banging on the drum, this is when truman begins to change his foreign-policy completely and you end up with the truman doctrine to protect countries threatened by the soviet union and followed by the marshall plan a dramatic turnaround in policy which is the idea to rebuild germany and rebuild germany in a democratic western form basically. everything begins to change and ha

the model of the mulberry harbor is the model that was used to explain the concept to churchill. churchill gave the model to president roosevelt and the roosevelt presidential library then transferred it to the eisenhower president equal library. so we are still very proud to share this with our public. thank you. i think that the table, the planning table is one of those objects where you realize the history that happened right there, that men sitting around, the decisions they were making, tens of thousands of lives hanging in the balance and that is eisenhower would handwrite on note saying if anything goes wrong it's my fault, it is so dramatic. >> and you know that he wrote the wrong date on that piece of paper. he wrote july 5th. no one really knows why. we don't know if it was nerves or -- we just don't know. but to see that piece of paper, to see that graphite on the paper and know that it was written by his hand, from his heart, it's an incredibly powerful piece of paper. >> what is your favorite part of this new exhibit. >> i think for me, the most important piece of ou

but randall churchill and winston churchill took joe out for lunch and he was viewing how britain didn'tw what it was doing it should not be hurtling itself. and as a journalist and stood up and turned purple and lectured him for j ten minutes and walked out. and with those from st. james palace to say he only stood out that there is a big thing in american press about him wearing short but he was so bowlegged ill he wouldow be a laughing stock. so now joe is the ambassador and given his credentials. that king is affable. he has a duty to court joe as well as joe going around and he reports back and all those are saying about the european situation. those as the secretary of state the longest-serving secretary of state in american history and the assistant secretary under wells. and within days of this, literally on the 15th of march he does the thing and in a telephone call says i am european expert. shut up. you don't know what iss going on. and therefore within 15 days of his arrival in england he had the state department angry. now why did he think that? his good friend who is a comm

and -- what surprised me is the extent to which roosevelt and then churchill and then truman and churchill, they really believe that stalin was a man of his word. but he had no intention whatsoever of living up to all the promises he made. particularly including the promises he made that yalta. and then the war comes to an end, and the red army's swept into eastern europe, and stalin has basically got everything he wants. so truman and churchill, they are really in a back foot there. because stalin has everything he wants. and they are still wanting to work with him. and that's where the real tension comes in, with colonel howley on the ground, saying, hold on a minute, this is ridiculous. this guy cannot be trusted. and it's his persistence, really, that starts to change policy. and it's all happening on a very subtle level, you know? >> -- ready to be firm right away? do you think that other peoples resistance to stalin -- or how eager everyone was, to end the turmoil and fighting? >> well, stalin was an absolutely brilliant -- well, i say, he was a very evil individual. but he was brill

winston churchill is against him.ost of the british establishment is still following our dear friend, mr. chamberlain did. in april, 1938, he and rose are invited to windsor castle and now joe is getting drunk on reddish high society and all the wonderful things they see and do and he sees how happy it's making rose.he he knows they will be in the social register back home and he has made it impossible for american debutantes to come to england tont be presented at cot unless they have clearly established relationship with britain. rose and he become friendly with these troops and the royal brotr and rose presents her two eldest daughters, rosemarie on the right and kathleen on the left in may, 1938. at court. it's interesting when i quote from rose's diary when she talks about this, she doesn't talk about how the girls did, only about how she did. sorry, i skipped. excuse me. one of the things joe did in april, is he asked nancy air below with her husband waldorf to see if he could introduce his daughter kate to some

churchill puts it very very firmly. he can't be trusted and, there's a second thing that happens, one of the soviet clocks working in the soviet embassy in canada, defects to the west, and he defects with a huge bundle of highly explosive documents that reveal that the soviets had been spying on the american nuclear program, and someone that knows everything about what's taking place with the americans with the western developing a nuclear warhead, so these two events are really important, and the third thing, i don't know how well known it is in america. it's certainly not known at all in my country, in england, the american embassy in moscow. writes his famous long telegram, which in a very similar tone to churchill sets out the fact that the soviets cannot be trusted, so in 1946, these three things happen in the spring of 1946 with howley continually banging on the drum saying we've got to change policy, and this is when, you know, truman begins to change his foreign policy completely, and you're going to end up with

in the third person was a week later randolph churchill and randolph and winston churchill took joe outr lunch and how britain didn't know what it was doing and it should not be hurtling itself towards war and randolph is a journalist and winston stood up and turned purple in lecture joe for ten minutes and walked out, randolph talked about credentials in the public system by saying he only stood out because they only were treasures and there's a big thing in the american press of him wearing short breaches and how we can do that because joe kennedy was so bowlegged they would block. so now joe is ambassador and given his credentials to the king, the king is actionable and he has the duty to court joe as well as joe going around to the other ambassadors and he reports back on the ninth and tenth of march with all the other ambassadors are saying about the european situation. and to these two gentlemen. the first on top is the secretary of state, the longest-serving secretary of state in american history and he's the assistant secretary and within days of this eventually on the 15th of m

[applause] winston churchill was here four different times but on june 20th of 1942 was probably the most important visit. we know that earlier in the day that he and fdr, harry hopkins are down in fdr study in springwood and they are talking about two baloys, british atomic program, the code name for that. the researching was taking place in london which was rather difficult at the time with constant bam barding of the city so they weren't making the progress that they were hoping to and word was coming down that the germans were close to developing an atomic weapon. churchill was asking fdr to bring the program and scientists over to the united states and fdr agrees to that and within two months time, two balloys is gone and the manhattan project was born out of that. we know they're discussing this at springwood from churchill's memoirs and through margaret daisy dairy entries of that day and she sets the mood up here at top cottage. she doesn't necessarily spell out the words that were said, she talks about the visit which occurred at about 4:00 o'clock that afternoon at spring -

and it was later found to congratulate churchill. so within six months of churchill becoming prime minister of england, he was moved to become the british ambassador over the previous ambassador and mostly because he felt it would be honest and america. and that includes one of them came to america, it was kicked to help him through his problems. he lost both in the campaign and she was absolutely wonderful to him and the would help her get back here so that she could marry billy in 1943 in the summer of 1940, obviously, the blitz begins. and people were taking shots where they could. joe kennedy was told he cannot come back to america coming at d you havee to help and well, he never went to see the bombed out areas. this is the closest he came, telling everybody that he was -- that he was actually bombed out of the american ambassador residence in the west end. and there were absolutely no bombs. so he became known by a nickname at this time. he had left london. he did not see the bombed out areas he did not inquire after the king a

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and he had this wonderful relationship with churchill, of course. i think roosevelt addressed him as -- i forgot, it was a navy title -- >> he was the former naval person. >> former naval person, right. >> and he started the correspondence with churchill before he became prime minister this which case he referred to him as the naval person. the president was not supposed to be talking with -- then fdr referred to him as former naval person. >> right. i spent the pandemic reading all six volumes of churchill's history. the only good thing that came out of the pandemic. [laughter] >> we're running out of time. question from andrew smith, i appreciate the importance of the supreme court stuff, but i wonder if you were going to have another conversation about other fdr stuff in the future. first of all, we've been doing this for a year and a half. every week or two we do a new program, they're all available on our youtube page and our facebook videos. we've done everything from fdr's relationship with different presidents, eisenhower and johnson, to the

and churchill thinks it's terrific. churchill comes up with the idea of x troop. he said it was an unknown factor, we'll see how this goes. there was never the thought ever in any of the written documentation let's get jewish refugees. that wasn't what they were looking for. they were looking for german speakers. but in order to be someone who wanted to have a commitment, as a commando, it was really important to find out, well, why do you want to go fight -- you're german, why do you want to fight the germans? what ends up happening, of course, is all the people that want to do this, i think there was 87 in the unit. i think 84 were jewish. it's because they're jewish that they want to do this as much as because they're german. originally the fresh units, the polish unit. x troop is officially called the british united. that's another part of the story i haven't mentioned. but mountbatten and the person in charge of them, the commander brian hilton jones, a wonderful, not jewish welsh man realize these guys are in the most danger if they're caught because they'll

in the churchill sisters, rachel examines the relationships between winston churchill's three daughters and founder and president of the research center looks back at his life and career here in washington. his memoir is called stops along the way. have you ever laid awake at night and wonder which first lady appeared on the mary tyler moore show or which president hunted rats in the white house or more importantly which former u.s. president it's a national hero in paraguay? the answer to all those questions are in this book the great american political trivia challenge, 2,100 trivia questions from american politics, past and present, rich is the author who joins us from marblehead massachusetts. how did this project get distorted? >> it got started when i was probably 9-years-old and i started watching c-span. i'm a political junkie i don't know where it formulated about for some reason i had a gravitational pull and its interest specifically with the facts and it's interesting after the first book was about the facts in american politics, then a book tour asking about rotations, so p

which has ever come out and apparently with regular stores. moultrie imagining him as being like churchill. he doesn't know scotland and seems almost to run away from having to see too much of it in this way is, is a bit unlike it's predecessor, david cameron's on the night of the referendum in 2014 as to whether it's got to be independent or not, david cameron made much about the fact that his small, some was reading tar underpants. now that's not true, entirely profound inside from scotland, but it was at least some sort of token reference. and so would cameron's assumptions about his own remotes got him to stretch? that's not present in johnson's case. and to a certain extent, johnson is rather like a schoolboy people think comes public school, boise story, learn off a little bit of a lesson, but not pretty much of it and hoops he can get by with it. so if this project, the great british project, let's call it that, has been gone for 400 years. i've been what's happened and we have a scottish nationalism politically researching that we are violent, probably closer to unification than th

i spent the pandemic reading all six volumes of churchill's world war ii history. it was the only good thing that came of the pandemic. >> we're running out of time here, so question from andrew smith. i appreciate the importance of the supreme court stuff, but i'm wondering if you plan to have another live conversation about other fdr subjects in the near future. first of all, we have been doing this for a year and a half. every week or two we do a new program. they're available on our youtube page. there's lots of material there. i think we're up to about 75 of these conversations with authors and historians, so please, we're going to continue to do this and hopefully some day as the pandemic eases we'll go back to doing live programs, at which point we will continue to live stream them and record them and put them on our youtube so we have a collection of this comment. this will be the last question and it's a really good one. it's from joanne merez. this is a lifetime appointment supposed to be a way to avoid politicalization and justices feeling beholding to a

churchill would often talk to the anglo-americans and churchill was in the peculiar position because his mother was american and his father was british but what the british finally came around in the 20th century including arguably too today was a recognition that a partnership between america and britain was the best thing going and they won two world wars and save democracy in the 1940s so i guess maybe franklin wasn't wrong for 200 years. >> what i found really interesting also in the book was that while members of parliament and the king were not particularly sympathetic to the grievances of the american colonists there was considerable support among ordinary riddance for the position that the colonists had taken and what they were asking for it. i thought that was a really interesting thing that i had never understood before and i'm sure that many people with me now will have not heard of that and there was tremendous popular support among the non-governmental elite for the idea of the colonists having their rights they were asking for it. >> this is a reminder again of how comp

and he had this wonderful relationship with churchill, where he addressed him as a navy title. >> held be a former naval person. >> right. at the start of the course, he referred to him as -- he's not supposed to be talking new england. but when you have it with fdr, -- i spent the pandemic reading all six volumes of churchill's -- it was only getting that came out of the pandemic. >> if a couple of quick questions we are running out of time here. question from andrew smith, appreciate the importance but i'm wondering if you plan to have another conversation with fdr subjects in the future. first, of all we've been doing this for a year and a half and every week or two we do a new program. it's everything from the afghan relationship with her johnson to the great depression. this public program, then we have 75 of these conversations with authors, historians and we are going to continue to do this. at which point we will continue to live stream this, put it on youtube's that we have -- >> this is going to be the last question, it's a really good one. so, jolin-barrette. is a lifetime

normally the argument for allies, someone pulls out a winston churchill quote, what he said about allies, but anyway many people say the more allies you have, the better, end of discussion. you, however, advise a more nuanced approached in the western pacific, how some alliances could carry along with them entanglements, potentials costs and could you give us more on your thinking how you're thinking about alliances especially in that neck of the woods? >> sure, i look at alliances the way i look at everything in this perspective. you and i, we-- i look at my job working for the american people, i don't collect a federal paycheck, but this should make sense, the strategy should make sense to the american people in an enlightened way that could be positive with others and basically in their interest and that's why there's a tendency in the beltway like they're marriages or religious pacts and to me they're business, more like a long-term business partnership. they should make sense for both sides. sometimes it may need to be equitable and sometimes not. but people hand wave how our allies

that was the decision was made and churchill think is just terrific. it's just an unknown factor. so was never the thought ever and written documentation. it was and what they were looking for. they were looking for german speakers but when they did the interviews it was important to find out why -- you are german want to fight the germans and what happened of course was all the people wanted to do this and i think 84 were jewish was because they were jewish and not because they were german. it's funny but originally the french units in the polish unit x troopers were called the british unit. the person in a ends up being in charge of their commanding office jones who is a wonderful welsh man realized that these guys are in the most danger they are caught. they would be killed as jews and kill this germans and their families would probably be rounded up at the gestapo. they were officially called the british unit but what they will really be as german but all of them are told as part of this unit you take on a new persona. once they are selected they take five minutes to come up w

churchill book. what last king of america.journalism right there. these are not for the faint of heart. but they are for people who love history and beautiful writing. let me ask you, how did he come to be so misunderstood that we thankfully have the record corrected by dent of the trove of documents you had access to? >> that's right brian. thank you very much. he was misunderstood partly before. i love that as much as everybody, else but which is entirely historically incorrect. and of, course the declaration of independence -- which was a wartime -- it's the most beautiful language, but two thirds of it the latitude of the two thirds of it for prices of 20 charges. only two of which he was guilty. up he mentioned this new archive, the majesty the queen has since since 2015, but 100,000 pages of the georgia's third archive in letters, pages, correspondents, and so on, online. and it shows a completely different person from the one that was made out. someone who is charming, intelligent, good-natured and limited government mo

winston churchill said about the role of an author, first of all, the idea of a book is a mistress. it is fascinating. it is different. it is exciting. you warm up to you it -- warm up to it quickly. get heavily involved with it. then it becomes a taskmaster. then it becomes a demon about to devour you. just before the demon devours you, you slay the demon and fling it out for all to read. that is about the way i feel about writing strong at the broken places. that is where i got the title. ultimately, the phrase strong at the broken places is the way i feel today. the hope there is no matter how broken we all are and how desperate we feel, physically, mentally or emotionally or spiritually, the truth of the matter is by the grace of god and the help of friends, we all can get strong at the broken places even at the deepest broken places in our lives. so hemingway was right. i think there is a fascinating part of that quote. the world breaks everyone. afterwards, many are strong at the broken places. it does not say all. i cannot tell you the number of young men and some women that

churchill book, "last king of america."hes of journalism right there. these are not for the faint of heart, but they are for people who love history and beautiful writing. let me ask you how did he come to be so misunderstood that we thankfully have the record corrected by dint of the trove of documents you had access to. >> that's right, brian, and thank you very much. and he was misunderstood partly because of shows like "hamilton" which i loved as much as everybody else, but which is entirely historically incorrect and also, of course, the declaration of independence, which was a wartime -- it's the most beautiful language. it's sublime prose, but two-thirds of it, the latter two-thirds of it are coprised of 28 charges, only two of which he was guilty of. you mentioned this new archive, yes, the majesty since 2015 has 100 pages of george iii's archives, his letters and correspondence and so forth online, and it shows a completely different person from the one that has been made out, somebody who is charming, intelligent,

. >> i think they tried toserve some kind of a fruity cocktail to winston churchill who spat out . but no, absolutely. that was a famous episode and roosevelt saw the need to cultivate closer relations with england which was and battled and at that point could have lost the war once and for all for the west. he had this wonderful relationship with churchill of course where i think roosevelt addressed him as i forgot. by a navy title. >> he was a former naval person . originally he had correspondence before he minister in this case he would approach them as the naval person but the president of course is not supposed to be talking to england here so fdr is referred to as formal neighbor person. >> we searched through volumes of that history and it's the only good thing that came out of the pandemic. >> we have a couple questions from andrew smith. i appreciate the importance of the supreme court and i wonder if you're having another live conversation about fdr subjects in the future . we've been doingthis for a year and a half .oi every week or two we do a different program. they're

winston churchill once said something to the effect of a friend of mine was reminding me, you chose shame to avoid war but got shame and war. it doesn't do you any good to appease these types of people. that's why i would encourage people, you know, support the lisa murkowskis, the lifz cheneys, those that marjorie green are opposing. support, if you're a republican, but also if you're an independent or a democrat in those red districts like lauren boebert's, like marjorie greene's, vote for the sane republican so you can take out this trash. >> and paul, let's listen to what marjorie taylor greene said about kevin mccarthy recently. pretty astounding. >> we know that kevin mccarthy has a problem in our conference, we doesn't have the full support to be speaker. he doesn't have the votes that are there because there's many of us that are very unhappy about the failure to hold republicans accountable while conservatives like me, paul gosar, and many other just constantly take the abuse by the democrats. i'm demanded it. i want adam kinzinger and liz cheney kicked out of the gop conference.

churchill once said democracy is the worst form of government ever invented except all forms of government ever invented. the process can be messy the outcome in passing the bill back better act will be transformational for the american people as we lower costs and cut taxes create millions of good paying jobs i think it's going to be embraced not by democrats but independence. >> this is both chairman mentioned, when we talk in our communities and all of them spent time at home last week, when we talk in our communities about what is in these bills, there is overwhelming support, local mayor spoke yesterday at the white house, often a warrant who's a republican representing small and midsized cities she give the president an enormous amount in congress from the democratic house credit for delivering this. she's been talking about infrastructure for years and wasn't able to get done until now. she was there with us celebrating because it's going to mean good paying jobs wo words, folks don't understand and april, you're going into our communities and the president's cabinet are going out i

if we can hold them there, speaking of churchill one of my favorite quotes is, he said before when the decisive battle in the primary theater, we can set everything else right again after. if we can hold china at the first island chain or thereabouts, we can deal with africa, south america, asia, we'll get a ratchet because we will be in an advantageous position. but if we lose in the first island chain we will be imperiled everywhere else. >> i would remind our audits to submit your questions. we are taking questions and we'll get to those in just a moment and i would also, i'm going plug the book again, "the strategy of denial," information how to get your copy is on a a webinar tab. this anti-hegemonic coalition, how would china think that taking the apart like a can opener? >> exactly. i think if it kind of like short-circuiting. the focus and sequential strategy is basically you don't want to catalyze the whole coalition to fight you. the mistake the germans and japanese made in world war ii was basically get everyone to fight against them. you want to have a series of short sharp