have to try and imagine a middle class version of lyndon johnson to get at the character of neville chamberlain in turn it over in your mind. he gave way over to the flock if he thought it was right to give way over to the stock yet and he knew that nobody in britain still liked anybody in france and was prepared to go to war in 1938 to save nokia. in advisedly ones that had happened and chamberlain became a world-class hero "the new york times" lavished praise on him for saving a sophomore in 1938. he gave an unconscious guarantee to poland to contact them if they were attacked by germany even though there was already apparent that president clinton is the next on hitler's list. hitler was convinced that tubulin would never go to war if he attacked poland and he said once in between discussions in 1938, political discussions in munich, that tubulin attempted to make small talk which was talking to him about dry fly fishing and a major interest of neville chamberlain and not something about which he knew anything about or cared and he came back from that meeting saying i know these people and t

commons over a the conduct of the campaign in norway left to the unexpected resignation of neville chamberlain with circumstances of extraordinary job -- trauma and with political intrigue to bringing churchill to power as prime minister instead of lord halifax that chamberlain and most of the conservative party and the king would have preferred to this so-called rogue elephant as churchill private secretary called him. churchill's long political career was marked by tremendous ups and downs. he was widely disgusted by his own party and the royal family. he was stubbornly wrong about a whole range of things including, but not limited to independence for india, finance, the gold standard, of the strength of the french army and king edward the eight. but from 1933 on he was right about the one and only thing that mattered. adolf hitler. churchill was against hitler in favor of rearming britain and constantly pointed out the dangers of nazi germany and the armament which that was more than people wanted to hear the only voice of alarm to cry out alone in the wilderness and now was proven right ev

when neville chamberlain, his rival, predecessor, and colleague died, winston made a wonderfully beautiful eulogy for his old rival, in which he said this. "history, with its flickering lamp, stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams of passions of former days." in other words, no matter how hard they tried, historians and history can never offer you the full picture. which made me think that perhaps, i as a novelist, starting from a very different perspectives, from the inside out maybe a novelist can fill in , some of the gaps and try to and blood man.sh the passions, the private moments, the triumphs, and yes, the fears, too. so, i started to think of winston as a real person, not just a cardboard cutout. a real person. winston is an old man. i dived into something, an international society publication. i don't know if we still publish it. it was an extraordinary exposition of the hangups that winston had, even as an old man, about his father. i wanted to know about winston as the child, so i went to his firs

i started with winston's beautiful eulogy to his predecessor, neville chamberlain, about history's flickering light. that is not all he said. he went on to say this, words as relevant today as they ever were. the only guide to a man is his conscience. the only shield his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. it is imprudent to walk through life without the shield because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with the shield, we march always in the ranks of honor. winston was a man of honor, a man who never bothered to look at his shoelaces, he was a man of vision, he was a man of dreams, dreams that inspired the world and went on to save it for us. thank you for listening this evening and may your dreams go with you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> this weekend on the c-span networks, tonight at 9:15 p.m. on c-span, former presidential speechwriters

commission, churchill spoke on the tribunal of history which is also a phrase one hears at neville chamberlain's funeral speech. during the hard-fought discussions over intervention in the russian civil war, churchill had frequent recourse to historical parallels, as in 1919 when in the face of david lloyd george's demands that all forces in russia be evacuated, and he said the whole episode in russia was a painful one and it reminded him of our desertion of the catalans. he was referring to in effort in 1813 to open a second front in spain during the napoleonic wars. his knowledge of history was so deep that she could assume they would not only pick up the reference but find it a painful one. one mentioned the siege of toulon, there were literally only two members who would know what you're talking about today. today, we know that the british empire in india was evil and wrong because we are constantly taught that in our schools and universities and by the bbc. poor winston churchill, in his ignorance, could not have known that britain was viciously exploiting india and giving nothing back. exc

churchill spoke about the tribunal of history which is that is neville chamberlain's funeral speech. during his discussions of intervention in the civil war he had frequent recourse on historical parallels. all british forces should be of actuated. he said this is a very painful one. he was referring to the botched effort to open a second front during the napoleonic war. his knowledge of history was so deep that churchill could reasonably assume they could not only pick up the reference but it was a painful one. n theye desertion of the were only two members that they were talking about. because of course today we know that the british empire in india was evil and wrong because we are constantly taught that in our schools and universities by the bbc. his that hem in could not have known british was viciously exploited india and giving nothing back. they had the massive irrigation projects, political unity, they had never had that before. best education should be mentioned. national trade. free ideas of exchange. obviously, universities, aqueducts and docks. other than that absolutely

men about the members of the conservative party that were discussed in the appeasement of the neville chamberlain administration and it was believed last year i finished a good book the freedom caucus and we liked it and gave it to everybody and it was called trouble some young men and it was about the parliamentt and 38, 39 and 40 who knew they had to move chamberlain outs of power because he wasn't standing up to hitler and mussolini like they thought he needed to and we read this all at the same time we were involved in changing our leadership, so it's kind of an interesting book i read. trouble some young men had to do with the rise of a small band of conservatives in the parliament during the churchill period and kind of motivated by the freedom caucus trying to get the country back to solve the fiscal problems and just kind of represent the people more closely so i think this will give me a little motivation. >> vice president of the united states back in the day and majority leader. it has appealed not only american legislators. i've been to canada and britain. it's kind of a test they rea

we saw what happened with neville chamberlain and adolf hitler.is appeasement policies, that clear the way for germany's invasion of europe. bill clinton throwing billions of north korea let us stay where we are today. if anything happens, the blame will fall at the feet of bill clinton and his stupidity and his ignorance and his belief in a fantasy that despots listen to him. by the way, this led to that situation and foundation of where we are today and the same goes with president obama's disastrous nuclear deal with their brand. this will b come back to bite u. obama giving tehran upwards of a hundred $50 billion. obama allowing that rogue regime to keep spending their nuclear centrifuges and put them on a path towards getting a nuclear weapon. as a result, obama now owns that terrible decision to appease a country that routinely calls for death to america, wants to wipe israel off the map. and before we bring in kellyanne conway for reaction, two other breaking news stories to tell you about. one, catherine herridge is out with an explosive r

and the kennedys were like that.r so bringing that up and neville chamberlain umbrella type of guy. >> using the kennedy's like that? bid jack really getting care. bobby saw right and wrong and he is not to be rewarded.et they are very interesting. separately they were very different people but the questiont is good hatred. [laughter] friends in need anything but enemy only means one thing. >> so there is never enough time we need a round of applause. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> booktv on c-span2 live coverage of miami book fair. chris matthews will join us later to take your calls and about 15 minutes the next author is one nation, we are in the middle of the miami book fair at miami-dade college joining us now is former senator and author author, his book neighbors in arms. senator, first of all, what is theer of pressler amendment that you discuss in youroo book? to make a prohibited aid or military relations with pakistan if they developed a nuclear weapon or using our money to develop one. it was endorsed by the first george w. -- george bush