mr. churchill and he said, mr. churchill, stop and think about it this way. he says the r.e.f. bombs at night and the american air force bombs in the daylight which means the germans are subjected to bombing around the clock. churchill clapped his hands, and said oh, that's great. he was delighted thinking about that. after the mission was over, we would return to home base and go in for a debriefing and what not. one of the nice features was you not only got a cup of coffee, but if you wanted a shot of whiskey, you could get that as well. so we had a chance to enjoy that sort of thing. we, of course, were very delighted when the world war 2 ended so that we could all pack up and go back home, which i was able to do, in june of 1945. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you for the opportunity to tell you a little bit about my background. >> there'll be more. mr. woods, question for you. 67 years ago today. >> yeah. >> you went ashore on iwo jima. you were there for another seven days, correct? 11 days, excuse me. over the course of those 11 days, what was the greatest challenge you fac

churchill still managed to win the second world war. ike was mr.hers wore wigs. but in this modern america, bald may be beautiful but will probably not get you elected. piers, while that may work on

churchill called the relationship between britain and america more than 60 years ago. what is true then it appears so now. today, the american president and the british by mr. cemented issues concerning the countries. -- and the british prime minister cemented their relationship. >> they were called to injured spirits. president obama has pulled out all the stops. he was bowled over by his reception in london and is determined to put out all the pomp that america can muster. a crowd of more than 5000 local school children on the white house lawn, a handshake for a few. reviewing the troops the stress is an essential part of the relationship. britain might be an essential ally but it also reminded that we were once enemies. they joked that in 1812, the bird to this place to the ground. >> we are glad you are here. i'm confident that together we will keep the relationship between our two great nations absolutely top-notch. >> the president said that america and britain stood to get there. the military operation is that the core of the relationship and at the heart of what the two men discussed today. in the oval office, they talked about iran, syria, and afgh

mr. chairman and senator inhofe both actually the writer in me has to say this. before you use that quote from general burgess, believe the first person who made that statement was winston churchill when he said that the united states and britain were two countries separated by a common language. i did not want to out you general burgess but someone was going to do it sooner or later. it actually goes to one of the points that i need to make this morning and to ask both of you for your advice and that is ports do count. i also sit on the foreign relations committee and the last few days we have been trying to put together a resolution with respect to syria and first i would say director that your comments, your testimony and your comments were very helpful today and you can hear the frustration from people like senator mccain on the fact that people think they need to do something but we have to be careful what we do and we have to be careful about the statements that we make as a senate. i have had a number of occasions since i've been here to attempt to look at some of the statements that are well-meaning but hastily drawn and sometimes overly conclusive in their tone. and yet