. >> stanle weintraub, what was president roosevelt's christmas light? >> president roosevelt had a visitor from england. prime minister churchill. he took churchill to the boundary methodist church in washington for christmas morning and churchill for the first time in his life heard a little town of bethlehem song. he was not a churchgoer. >> stanley weintraub, this is your third book on christmas time? >> i think it may be my fourth. silent night, about the chris smith in 1913, world war i, was the first. i did one about these evolution. george washington coming home at the end of the war and actually arriving on christmas eve. i did another on the battle of the bulge, 11 days in december that was a wartime christmas and is still of course co-general chris smith in the civil war. >> what is it about christmas? >> it is a remarkable time for families as it was a remarkable time in our history over the years. i hope this'll be my last christmas book. >> "pearl harbor christmas" a world toward december 1941 is the book. stanley weintraub is the author. >