thanks to lee pollock for helping to make this moment the reality. he has been churchill's legacy of great service, and a pleased to call him a friend. think you, lee. it is a tremendous honor to be appointed the first director of the national church library and center at the george washington university, and executive director at the international churchill society. i'm grateful to the board of ics and the leadership of the gw libraries for selecting me. though i've only been in my post since monday, my new colleagues at the university have already made me feel at home. and as a 1994 recipient of a masters degree of history from gw, for me it is a sort of homecoming. soon you will see for yourselves the fruits of our efforts. after years of toil and struggle, the nclc is our reality. within the sleek, silvery space, students and visitors will have access to hundreds of volumes on churchill from classic works to much of the most recent scholarship, and interactive touchscreen video exhibition will allow patrons to see the colorful and vivid detail, co

thanks to lee pollock for helping to make this moment the reality. he has been churchill's legacy of great service, and a pleased to call him a friend. think you, lee. it is a tremendous honor to be appointed the first director of the national church library and center at the george washington university, and executive director at the international churchill society. i'm grateful to the board of ics and the leadership of the gw libraries for selecting me. though i've only been in my post since monday, my new colleagues at the university have already made me feel at home. and as a 1994 recipient of a masters degree of history from gw, for me it is a sort of homecoming. soon you will see for yourselves the fruits of our efforts. after years of toil and struggle, the nclc is our reality. within the sleek, silvery space, students and visitors will have access to hundreds of volumes on churchill from classic works to much of the most recent scholarship, and interactive touchscreen video exhibition will allow patrons to see the colorful and vivid detail, co

lee pollock. >> thank you, david. and i join you in welcoming everyone who is your duty to will be a wonderful conference. or as one of our presidential candidates might say, this crowd is huge. it's been a year since our last and very memorable conference in my case six years since i became your executive director. during the past year with your support we have continued to build on the work that has gone before. just consider a couple of things are do a google search for winston churchill, you'll find 36 million results. we are number three. it's hard to beat wikipedia but we'll keep on trying and we will be more accurate. we have continued our series of events on capitol hill building of one of our proudest moments, the dedication of the boston churchilchurchil l two years ago in the capital. we've expanded our programs from events with young professionals at the british embassy do seminars at the aspen institute and the national world war i and ii museums. we finance our partnership with organizations such as the

i wanted to say a quick thank you to the international churchill society, especially lee pollock, who has been a tremendous help to me in the source of encouragement and incredibly gracious and generous over the past five years while i have been working on this book. it is a tremendous honor to be here, very humbling to have a chance to meet some renown historians, some of my personal heroes including sir david cannadine. that he is a him very difficult act to follow, but i will try my best. as i sat in this room last night, having a beautiful dinner am a great conversation, i suddenly realized that i had been here before, but it was for a very different event. fors here for a memorial two coworkers from national geographic just across the street. they had been killed a few days earlier on 9/11. they had been on the plane that had been flown into the pentagon. feeling at the time, as so many people dead, nation,t we needed as a as a world, with someone who can not only lead us, but can someone -- but someone who understood history and to understood the power of words, and could harnes

i wanted to say thank you to lee pollock, who has been a tremendous help to me, a source of encouragement and incredibly gracious and generous over the past five years while i've been working on this book. it's a tremendous honor to be here, very humbling to have a chance to meet some renowned historians, some of my personal heroes, including especially sir david cannondyne. he's a very difficult act to follow, but i will try my best. as i sat in this room last night, having a beautiful dinner, great conversation, i suddenly realized that i had been here before, but it was for a very different event. i was here for a memorial for two co-workers from national geographic just across the street, who had been killed just a few days earlier on 9/11. they had been on the plane that had been flown into the pentagon. and i remember feeling at the time, as so many people did, that what we needed as a nation, as a world, was someone who cannot only lead us but someone who understood history and who understood the power of words, and could harness those words. what we needed was someone who could st