i had just gone to work for stan evans. i had grown up with reagan. the original churchill quote was, i think, "i did not become the king's first minister to provide the liquidation of the british empire." which happened anyway, but that is a separate story. reagan liked to quote churchill -- he and churchill had parallel thoughts about nuclear weapons. churchill in the late 1940's or early 50's said, the west had a monopoly on nuclear weapons and we did not use it to conquer the world. is there any doubt if the russians had a monopoly on weapons, they would use her conquest? reagan said the same thing in the 1960's. most famously in a debate with robert kennedy, whom he clobbered. you can see their thought patterns ran alike. john: we started this tangent on churchill by talking about reagan's writing style. it is one of the things you get into, the similarities between the men. both of writing and preparation for speeches, from moments like that. explain the parallels. steven: yes. on the speechmaking, churchill wrote his own speeches. reagan wrote

i had just gone to work for stan evans. i had grown up with reagan. the original churchill quote was, i think, "i did not become the king's first minister to provide the liquidation of the british empire." which happened anyway, but that is a separate story. reagan liked to quote churchill -- he and churchill had parallel thoughts about nuclear weapons. churchill in the late 1940's or early 50's said, the west had a monopoly on nuclear weapons and we did not use it to conquer the world. is there any doubt if the russians had a monopoly on weapons, they would use her conquest? reagan said the same thing in the 1960's. most famously in a debate with robert kennedy, whom he clobbered. you can see their thought patterns ran alike. john: we started this tangent on churchill by talking about reagan's writing style. it is one of the things you get into, the similarities between the men. both of writing and preparation for speeches, from moments like that. explain the parallels. steven: yes. on the speechmaking, churchill wrote his own speeches. reagan wrote