winston churchill was fluid.inston churchill was really a life-long politician, peter, he had been in military and, donald trump a businessman, both of them had different background but they certainly were fluid in their own years in terms of the political affiliations formerly that they had but i think that what both men had in common was a lot of -- love of country and love of ordinary person that believes in their country and they had sentiments and tastes that resinated with the people of the time and in the movie the darkest hour just a couple of years ago, many of the viewers would remember a scene where winston churchill goes into the tube in london and he visits with the regular commuters and he has that kind of -- that great relationship with the average person and -- and, again, rather surprisingly because winston churchill was guy born into money, wealthy and the same way donald trump is this billionaire businessman that seems to have a lot of blue-collar tastes in terms of the food he eats and what he

winston churchill was fluid. winston churchill was a lifelong politician. donald trump a billionaire businessman. both of them had different backgrounds but they certainly were fluid in their early years in terms of the political affiliations that they had but what both men had in common was love of country, love of the ordinary person who lived in their country and they had sentiments and tastes that resonated with the people of the time. in the movie the darkest hour a couple years ago many of the viewers will remember a scene where winston churchill goes into the tube in london and visits with the regular commuters and had that kind of great relationship with the average person and rather surprisingly because winston churchill was aristocratic, born into money, wealthy, in the same way donald trump is this billionaire businessman that seems to have a lot of blue-collar tastes in terms of the food he says what he does, both men very relatable. donald trump loves junk food, winston churchill similarly a doomed dutch like all of us to on occasion, drank too

winston churchill was fluid.ton churchill really was a lifelong politician, he had a stint in the military, donald trump of course had been a businessman. both of them had different backgrounds but they certainly were fluid in the early years in terms of the political affiliations formerly that they had but i think what both men had in common was a love of country, a log of the average everyday regular ordinary person that lived in their country and they had sentiments and tastes that resonated with the people at the time, in the movie the darkest hour a couple years ago many of the viewers will remember a scene where winston churchill wanted to in london and revisits with the regular commuters and he had that kind of great relationship with the average person and rather surprisingly because winston churchill was this aristocratic guy, born into money, wealthy, in the same way donald trump business billionaire businessman that seems to have blue-collar taste in terms of the food he eats and what he does, both men

first roosevelt and winston churchill had been an out truman and winston churchill were now very muchn collaboration so winston churchill knew about the development and they're talking about this. one question they have is when are we going to tell stalin? they think stalin knows nothing about the development of the bomb for the last three years because roosevelt and churchill have never shared it with him. the decision is made, we want to tell him about it because if we leave potsdam and then drop it on hiroshima, he is going to be furious that we are supposedly allies and have left them in the cold. but we want to tell him as little as possible, and as late as possible. so finally, on july 24, eight days after the successful test, truman and churchill decide they're going to tell him, but they're going to do it as casually as possible. they're having the potsdam conference in a suburb of berlin. toman they decide is going go up and kind of casually mention it to stalin. so he goes up, after the session has ended, they each had five people at the roundtable. truman goes over by himse

the presidency the 75th anniversary of the conference where the new president harry truman informed winston churchill of england and stalin of the sove jt uniiet unt the new u.s. super weapon. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >> world war ii began on september 1st, 1939 with the german invasion of poland. by the time the war ended in 1945 more than 60 million people rb killed and dozens of nations had been destroyed. the ability of democracy to sustain and survive a direct attack had been put to the test and proven. across the globe the decade of the 1930s had been a time of great unrest as economic depression resulted in widespread despair some nations fell under the control of totalitarian leaders. in europe german dictator hitler and his counterpart took vaelk of the turmoil. in asia the military dominated government of japan plotted a similar course. separated from these troubles by two oceans americans hope to avoid involvement in overseas conflict. at the time the u.s. military ranked 17th in the world and we were hardly in a position to enter a world war, but some

for millions here, winston churchill is a hero and one of greatest britons of all time.ce presided over, many point to a dark legacy. he might be an icon in britain, but in india, he is seen actually as the precipitator of mass killing. because of the policies that he advocated and the policies that he followed in bengal in 1943. at the heart of the anger against him, a famine in bengal. it was triggered by a cyclone and flooding, but many blame winston churchill and his government for making the situation worse. it's a painful chapter in india's colonial history. only a few surviving images show the horror of hunger. those who didn't die in villages went to cities in search of food. every day, bodies had to be removed from calcutta's streets. at least three million died. more than six times the british empire's casualties in world war two, raging at the same time. this man has lived through it. british troops had been forced to retreat from burma by the japanese. and, fearing they could also invade bengal, anything that could aid the enemies, like food stocks and boats

but many blame winston churchill and his government for making the situation worse.l history. only a few surviving images show the horror of hunger. those who didn't die in villages went to cities in search of food. every day, bodies had to be removed from the streets. at least three million died — more than six times the british empire's casualties in world war ii, raging at the same time. chitta kumar has lived through it. british troops had been forced to retreat from burma by the japanese and, fearing they could also invade bengal, anything that could aid the enemy — like food stocks and boats — were seized or destroyed. british officers in india sent a telegram after telegram describing how grave the situation was. but for months, mr churchill's government turned down requests to urgently export food that could've saved lives. they feared it would reduce stockpiles in the uk and take ships away from the war effort. he felt more could be done by local to help the starving. viceroy to india, archibald wavell, called the bengal famine "one of the greatest disasters

everybody thank you so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news on marty gonzales and i'm robin winston will begin this morning with a map and it just shows you where all the fires are burning right now and fire crews are still struggling the l a new lightning complex fire. >>that's the largest inside burning 215,000 acres in the north bay. there's the scu lightning complex that's in the east bay, it has scorched more than a 157,000 acres which is contra costa alameda santa clara status, la and san joaquin counties and then if you look to the south at the bottom of the map. >>that's the c august lightning complex fire it is from 48,000 acres in san mateo and santa cruz counties homes just completely destroyed thousands of people have been forced to evacuate. >>well now we're going to focus on the czu lightning complex fires burning in san mateo and santa cruz counties. take a look at this map all the red shows the thermal activities from the flames now we do know this morning that several homes have been

creative and resilient that's from the mania and so when you look at great historical leaders like winston churchill. john kennedy franklin roosevelt you see in these people that they have these traits they either have a full blown manic depressive illness or bipolar illness as call or they have these traits as part of their personality all the time a little bit an example would be churchill who had very severe depressions and during the 1930 s. the most famous wilderness years as he called it when he was out of political power and nobody listened to him he was very depressed but at the same time was extremely realistic about the nazi threat while almost all politicians of all spector in anyone's really were in denial about it and i think that's an example of where the depression brings out the realism that makes you a greater now you are now undef various. you know that many sex ask people i'm mentally unstable and perhaps it's that i'm in mental illness bad powers them through but i think many psychologists these days believe that it is a compound satori a coping adaptive mechanism will

>> next eric garcetti on his book the splendid and the bio, it looks that prime minister winston churchill's leadership during the london blitz, this was a virtual event by future tense a partnership by new america, and enters on a state university, it is one hour. >> welcome everybody, thank you for joining us on the latest future tent social, this is very exciting for me because i'm a huge fan of eric larson's books and we have to listen to a little bit of churchill as we are warming up to get into the mood. i'm the editorial director of future tent which is a collaboration between new america, freight magazine and arizona state university and we look at the implications and the impact of technology on society, i'm also professor at the school of journalism at arizona state university. it is an honor and pleasure to have you with us today, eric and what brings us here today is your latest book the splendid and the vile, as all of you probably know eric is the author of fabulous books in the garden of beats, thunderstruck, and white city, i have read most of your books but i have not read y

[laughter] margaret has a familial connection here minus winston chiu told. i wouldn't have to say much. there would be a very good set of cigars which is important to me and he was a genuine renaissance man. an able writer, hugely prolific, good painter. my sense is the lesson i take his perseverance. church will cost about one thing right. if you are going to get one thing right, adolf hitler is the one to get right. [applause] if churchill had died in 1938 even 39, he would have gotten some notices, a british statesman who we said earlier tinged party three times, said he was wrong about gandhi in india and the gold standard, about the sydney street riots but when the crisis of the time came, he was right about world war ii. in my mind it is inarguable we live in a better and brighter world because this man rose to power when needed. he later wrote i felt as if i walked into destiny as a preparation for this hour, for this trial. no one else was sure he wasn't failed. when roosevelt learned of the time difference, friday afternoon in washington and fdr kee

roosevelt when he met with britain's winston churchill and the soviet union's joseph stalin. it was during these meetings from july 17 until august 2 that mr. truman informed his soviet counterpart about the new u.s. super weapon. it would soon be unleashed on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. the truman library institute provided this video. prof. neiberg: we are at the 75th anniversary of the potsdam conference. big numbers like a 75th anniversary or 100th anniversary are always occasions for looking back and drawing attention. i think there is another reason to look back at potsdam, as we are reentering a world of great power competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of international relations thinking. so it is well worth us coming back to this subject. i am glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. i wish it was in person in kansas city. i wish that we were able to do this face-to-face, but we will do the very best that we can. the key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is show

supposedly winston churchill demonstrated with three matchsticks rolling to the left. the phrase that has been used ever since as poland sliding to the west. that part of the east is taken away from poland, and then the part of east prussia, but is kind of the heartland of old germany, becomes part of poland. as poland begins to move to the west. the americans are aware that there is not a heck of a lot they can do about this. they had hoped they could put something in the ability of a democratic government in poland to at least decide what kind of government poland would have. it becomes perfectly obvious at the potsdam conference that the soviets have no intention of allowing anything that would even remotely resemble free elections. i think this is one of, along with the atomic bomb, one of the two issues that creates difficulties and suspicions between the united states and the soviet union. poland pays the price. it remains under soviet dominance until the late 1980's and early 1990's. he said i wish instead of mumbling words of official optimism, we had had the j

>> are you talking about winston churchill and -- >> so when winston churchill escapes it's late 1890, something as i recall -- we as. and so, yes, winston churchill -- >> there's a local author miller, i can't remember her name -- >> we include that episode of winston churchill in our book as well. wi winston churchill escapes. he has to walk across the desert. he's nearly killed a number of times. he's a politician, right? and a writer and a prolific writer whoch writer. who is he going to write about but himself? and there are those who -- one of the arguments is that's how he gets into politics by playing this veterans card and this hero card to its maximum and it works pretty well for him, yeah. >> yes, sir? >> how did you go about identifying the sources for the -- all of the research that you did and how did you pull that together? was it from military sources or civilian sources or -- >> yes. we're very fortunate with dave's access to military records, certainly, that provided us access to things we couldn't just normally get. that was wonderful. looking at as many primary sou

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replenished daily by his private secretary so clearly winston churchill was someone who had mastered the art of working from home. something we are all struggling to do these days. maybe not the place this is conversation about your book usually start what i'm curious as to whether you think churchill would have some information about working from home. >> let's put it this way, if i am winston churchill and doing a zoom interview with you i i wod be in a bathtub. i'd be in a bathtub and i think churchill had no sense of candidate. he very likely would've been completely naked doing it. he was an ace work at home. think i would get up late in the morning and work in bed. he had his typist, his personal secretary nearby at all times with the typewriter taking notes. he would more than likely have a cigar and also frankly more than likely would have, this is a point for today, likely have a tumblr full of water and whiskey. >> it's interesting you talk about, we tend to think of this epic relationship, friendship, partnership, alliance, whatever you want to call it between fdr and chur

they had met, stephanie winston walkof who had wrote this book was a former pr woman at "vogue," who ran the met ball and a number of high-profile fashion events and she and melania became friends through that. melania's circle is incredibly small. there are just a very few people that she lets in, because she is so incredibly private. mostly, it is her parents and her sister, but there are a couple of close friends, including stephanie winston walkof. so when the president won, she asked stephanie to plan this inauguration for her. and she said, look, you have experience planning these kind of high-profile, very glamorous events, and that's what we want the trump inauguration to look like. and so she had her friend in there, not only planning the inauguration and witness to what stephanie winston walkof writes in the book just a shocking amount of disorganization and dysfunctional spending and an organizational process, but she wanted her there as an eye and an ear, as a way to keep track of what the other trump family members were doing during the inauguration. stephanie winston wa

winston searchal, the prime minister of england, america's strongest ally travelered to washington to meet with roosevelt. together they planned a strategy to combat the axis powers. it began to pay off in june 1942 as the allies slowly stopped the expansion of the axis allied powers. the battle of midway june 1942 was a major turning point. the u.s. navy destroyed four japanese aircraft carriers and ended japan's dominance in the central pacific. this was the first step in a strategy that came to be called island hopping, an island by island advance towards the japanese homeland. in europe the situation also improved. british forces defeated the german, african corp in egypt. an anglo-american invasion force landed to clear the continent of axis forces and german advance was stopped in a series of hard fought battles. in 1943 the tide of the battle continued to turn in the favor of the allies as they gained greater and greater control of the fighting in both europe and pacific. the soviet union turned back the invasion and began driving hitler's armies westward. in july the allies in

mine is winston churchill. i would have to say much. there would be a very good set of cigars. and he was able to it was a genuine renaissance man. he was an able writer. just a man of parts. the largest human being of our time. and my sense is the lesson i take from him most of all is perseverance. churchill got about one thing right. if you are getting get one thing right. if churchill had died in 1938. even into 39 he would have would've gotten some notices in the new york times with the interesting british statesman he was wrong about gandhi. when the crisis of the time came he was right about world war ii. to my mind it's an arguable that we can argue but i'm convinced that we live in a better and brighter world because of this man live and rose to power when he did on the tenth of may 1940. when he became prime minister i started walking with destiny and all of my life the preparation. i was sure i should not fail. when they learned about this being appointed. because of the time difference. it was friday afternoon in washington. they used to keep the cabinet into work al

roosevelt when he met with britain's winston churchill and the soviet union's joseph stalin.was during these meetings from july 17 until august 2 that mr. truman informed his soviet counterpart about the new u.s. super weapon. it would soon be unleashed on the japanese cities of hiroshima and nagasaki. the truman library institute provided this video. prof. neiberg: we are at the 75th anniversary of the potsdam conference. big numbers like a 75th anniversary or 100th anniversary are always occasions for looking back and drawing attention.

>> are you talking about winston churchill? >> so winston churchill escapes late 1890 as i recall. so the bowler war. yes. >> there's a local artist, local author, i can't remember her name. >> yes we include that episode of winston churchill and our buck as well. so yeah winston churchill escapes. he has to walk essentially across the desert, he's nearly killed a number of times. and it's something, he's a politician, and a writer, prolific writer, who's he going to write about beside him self? so it's a great way to gain publicity, and there are those, one of the arguments is that's how he gets into politics. by playing this veterans kurd and the hero card, to its maximum. and it works pretty well for him. yes sir. how did you go about identifying the sources for all of the research that you did? and how did you pull it together? was it from military sources, civilian sources, what? >> yes. >> long answer. >> we are fortunate to have access to military records which give us access to things we can have access to yet. as well as having as many primary sources as possible, certainl

and supposedly winston churchill demonstrated this with three match sticks rolling to the left. the phrase that has been used ever since is that poland slides to the west. so that part in the east is taken away from poland,come includes the city of lavuv had a large ethnic population of pols and the part of east prussia, the heartland of old germany, becomes part of poland. so the city of posin becomes the city of posnine as poland begin togs move to the west. the americans are aware there's not a heck of a lot they can do about this. they hoped to put some faith in the ability of a democratic government in poland to at least decide what kind of government poland would have. it becomes perfectly obvious at the conference that the soviets had no intention of allowing anything that would even remotely resemble free elections. this is, i think, one with along the atomic bomb one of the two issues that really does begin to create difficulties and suspicions between the united states and the soviet union. poland pays the price. it remains, of course, under soviet dominance until the

here, that i want to return to throughout this presentation, is shown by this photograph here, of winston churchill, harry truman and joseph stalin smiling and shaking hands. and the point that i really want to reiterate here, is that these three men and most of the advisers around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. we know from the scholarship of the 19 sixties, 19 seventies and beyond, a lot of fist organs red potsdam backwards. that is to say they read it as the start of the cold war. but as this photograph shows here, these three men in their staff came to potsdam not to be in a cold war amongst themselves but to celebrate, really, the end of the war with germany, figure out with the post world war was going to look like and plan for the final victory over japan in the pacific theater. this photograph very much reflects the spirit of potsdam, which i will talk a little bit more about in a bit, which was happy, which was victorious, which was joyful, which was really celebratory in the way that they were looking at the post war

>> oh, a trump is a trump is a trump. >> reporter: this morning, stephanie winston wolkoff, the formernd trusted adviser of the first lady is pulling back the curtain on who she sayd the real melania trump is in her new book "melania and me." >> you talk about how melania prizes her privacy above all things. give us a sense of the woman you came to know as a friend for quite some time. >> melania and i first met when i was at "vogue" before she met donald. she was single. she was striving. she wasn't, you know, a "vogue" cover model yet, so the melania i first met versus the melania that is there today is a very different person. >> reporter: before their bitter fallout over stephanie's role in what became the most expensive inauguration in history, they were close friends for more than a decade. >> 15 years of friendship. you all had kind of like a fun girlfriend whimsical times, right, with selfies and duck lips and lunches. >> what attracted me to melania was her strength, independence, attitude. she told you on her jacket, i don't care. she doesn't care what anybody thinks about he

. >> reporter: in her new book, "melania and me," stephanie winston wolkoff paints the first lady as confident, but calculating. >> a trump is a trump is a trump. you don't show any signs of weakness. >> reporter: but she says she saw melania trump begin to crack when that "access hollywood" when you're a , they let her you do i >> she cracked, thinking that that was the only time that there was even a possibility that donald wouldn't win the election. i said to her, are you upset, though? and doesn't it get you angry that donald would say something like this? she was angry, but she wasn't -- she knows who she married. he is who he is. she knew that. >> reporter: people have always said that they don't think melania wanted him to win. but you say otherwise? >> melania felt it was just a victory for her as it was for him. >> reporter: tonight, the white house is accusing winston wolkoff of trying to "profit off lies and mischaracterizations meant to harm the first family." tom? >> linsey, thank you. ash floo warnings as powerful storms strike all the way to the east. >>> and the major

then the 75th anniversary of the potsdam conference where the new president harry truman informed winston churchill of england and so joseph stalin of the soviet union about the new u.s. superweapon. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this weekend on c-span three. next on american history tv. we visit a hiroshima nagasaki atomic bomb exhibit in washington d.c.. this american artifacts program was recorded in 2015. , hi i'm peter cousin a kick. and the professor of history and director of american universities nuclear studies institute. i began our institute back in 1995. institute was born in the middle east midst of a controversy. i was gonna be held at the air and space museum of the smithsonian. this was an attempt by the smithsonian to do an honest and balanced to is this exhibit over the decision to drop the atomic bomb. this was the 50th anniversary. in the midst of that, i decided with one of my students whose mother and grandmother survived the atomic bombing it hiroshima. her grandfather died in the atomic bombing. we decided we would do something special to

our british ally winston churchhill and a man who has become the forgotten character of world war ii, the leader of the nationalist chinese. we fought a war in the pacific, chung fought a war on the asian mainland. very bloody and protracted war. as we advance through the bridge of t of the "uss enterprise, we will go into our next gallery for what life was like for the crewmen on the ships. this is what your quarters would look like. this was stripped to the bone. where you get the most weight is with the weapons and ammunition and supply of war. creature comforts are usually pretty far down the list. that's one of the things our gallery tells us. we spend a lot of time in the museum and effort to capture that personal story. we think that's what makes the national world war ii museum such an affecting experience. for example, we have the story here visitors can read of dory miller in a segregated navy, dory was never given an opportunity at tactical weapons training but when the japanese bombed pearl harbor he grabbed ahold of a machine gun and started firing at japanese aircraft an

church street -- winston churchill of england about the new u.s. asked during the american story. tv, thisrican history weekend on c-span3. now, federal trade commission commissioners testify on a range of topics before the senate commerce committee, including consumer privacy and data security legislation related to technology companies. the commissioners also discussed the importance of protecting consumers against covid-19-related scams. this is more than 2.5 hours.

the 75the presidency, anniversary of the pot sam conference, where harry truman informed winston churchill of england and josef stalin of the soviet union about the new u.s. super weapon. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. earlier this afternoon, house speaker nancy pelosi and senate minority leader chuck schumer gave an update on covid-19 relief negotiations. here's a look. [cameras shuttering] mr. schumer: thank you for coming. it was a disappointing meeting. we reiterated in very strong terms are offered. we came down one trillion from our number. they would go up one trillion from their top number, which was one. top number, which was $1 trillion, so we could meet in the middle. unfortunately, they rejected it. muchsaid they could not go above their existing $1 trillion and that was disappointing. the bottom line is very simple. there were only really two choices. choice one, negotiate for them. only two choices for them, negotiate with democrats and meet us in the middle. don't say it is your way or no way. if we can do that, we can accomp

eastern, the 75th anniversary of the potsdam -- harryhere hume truman informed winston churchill and josef stalin about the new u.s. super weapon. tv" thiserican history weekend on c-span3. >> earlier this afternoon, house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader -- minority leader chuck schumer gave an update on covid-19 negotiations. they were followed up by steve mission and mark meadows. here's a look. sen. schumer: thank you for coming. it was a disappointing meeting. we reiterated in very strong terms our offer. we came down $1 trillion from our top number which was $3.4 trillion. they go up $1 trillion from their top number which was $1 trillion, and then we begin to meet in the middle. unfortunately, they rejected it and said they couldn't go much above their existing $1 trillion. that was disappointing. the bottom line is very simple. there are only really two choices. negotiate for them. there are only two choices for them. negotiate with democrats and meet us in the middle. don't say it is your way or no way. if we do that, we can accomplish a whole lot of things. t

morning to you thanks so much for joining us on the kron 4 morning news on marty gonzales and i'm robin winston let's begin with a look at where the fires are burning across the bay area this morning once again we have it all mapped out for you. >>talk about your screen at the top is the l in new lightning complex fire. >>keep in mind that that's the largest in size burning more than 347,000 acres in total so far the scu lightning complex fire in the east bay has scorched nearly 344,000 acres and contra costa alameda santa clara status, la and san joaquin counties and then at the bottom of your screen. the bottom of the map there is the czu august lightning complex fire that's in san mateo and santa cruz county. >>let's zoom in now on the czu lightning complex fire. you take a look at this map on your screen. the red line shows the outline of the fire and it has grown so much you can see that spread now to the coastline. new this morning that fires turned deadly a 70 year-old man was found the body of 7 year-old man was found in the last chance area of santa cruz county kron four's will tran li

truman and winston churchill. said 50 not the post-war order of germany was europe and the entire world was decided here you can sense the history as soon as you enter the palace the courtyard and of course the conference hall. and that was to quote father and. meticulous care was taken the big 3 felt disadvantaged in any way even the specially built negotiating table reflects this. you see everyone entered the negotiating room through his own entrance care was taken that no one had to wait for anyone else they all entered the hall at the same time to observe the protocol in this. exhibition retraces the events of 75 years again. we have the study as with the original furnishings this was the soviet study the british and american ones have the documents papers and implements on the desks. and this historic site is presented within the broader world context. in the viewer gets a sense of what was happening in the summer of 1905 and the impact of the 2nd world war which was still going on in asia for example what. t

saved western democracy, that one man was winston churchill. he saw the enormous dangers that led to world war ii. there might have been 40 million people that have lost their lives, but even at the 11th hour, it was enough to pull britain through. had broun not pulled through -- britain not pulled through, it's doubtful the united states would have pulled through x in that case it's highly unlikely i would be sitting here aalive. c-span: who's your favorite american president? >> guest: oh, my -- that's a tough -- well, abraham lincoln, i guess. but it's a same one has to -- shame one has to go all the way back to lincoln to find a president that one can admire in a qualified way. i think among the modern people, in different respects i would say fdr, john f. kennedy and ronald reagan. even though domestically they were opposed, they recognized international danger and saved the life of this country which, without which all the other issues wouldn't matter. c-span: do you have an ideology? if not a political party? >> guest: oh, i suppose, yea

truman and winston churchill here said 50 not the post-war order of germany europe and the entire world was decided here you can sense the history as soon as you entered the palace the courtyard and of course the conference hall. and that was to quote father and. meticulous care was taken down the big tree fell disadvantaged in any way even the specially built negotiating table reflects this. you see everyone entered the negotiating room through his own entrance care was taken that no one had to wait for anyone else they all entered the hall at the same time to observe the protocol. to quote.

martin gilbert who is will winston churchill's most famous biographer wrote a dozen books on churchill various aspects one of his books was called a golden shares and was about that time in the late twenties early thirties when churchill was cast aside by the conservatives and england, great britain and embarked upon a new career of writing and doing radio commentary and lecturing. it mirrors reagan in many ways because in some ways he was cast aside by his party. and by the way churchill was warning about spending most of his radio commentary and his columns, warning about the rising threat of adolf hitler nazism. the thing is most people in england were ignoring or pooh-poohing. reagan spent his years doing radio commentary in russia warning about the rising threat of the soviet union so there is a lot of parallel between churchill's world looks years and reagan's world last year. it's serendipitous but it's also because he forced them to the floor. prop 13 in california, panama canal treaties, other issues you were covering i was involved with that came to the fore and helped produc