it was no first class luxury to winston churchill. the plane landed safely and once at the white house churchill talks with truman for several hours about the speech that was to come. churchill worked on the speech that had a working title of world peace and earnest for hours at that time. he's all input from those he trusted showing or reading drugs with secretary of state, the admiral, canadian prime minister mackenzie and british ambassador lord halifax to name just a few. halifax recalled later the first time churchill read the draft to him he was so passionate tears welled in his eyes and started trickling down his cheeks. churchill was certainly never a man lacking passion just reading a first draft. he was diligent in the speechwriting and one history and claims he devoted one hour every minute of his speeches in the house of commons to just relentlessly rating. imagine that if you can is 60 minute speech would have been 60 hours and as we know by churchill he liked to speak, so in fact many of them may have taken 60 hours to pr

kennedy, acting on behalf of a grateful nation, designated him an honorary american citizen, winston churchill paid his own heart-felt tribute to his transatlantic origins. appearing before a joint session of congress on the day after christmas 1941, he puckishly reserved i cannot help reflecting that if my father had been american and my mother british, instead of the other way around, i might have got here on my own. today outside the british embassy on massachusetts avenue churchill literally bestrides two nations, with one bronze foot plant on british soil and the other on american. this pleased the old man himself to no end. had the statue was announced on his 89th birthday, the honorary american said i feel it will rest happily and securely on both feet. controversy arose over the sculptor william mcvay's depiction of the wartime minister, not because of his defiant stance and the right hand raise and the trademark "v" for victory salute. it was the other churchill icon, the cigar in his left hand, that offended some of the english-speaking union, the organization responsible for the scu

almost half a century on, winston churchill still manages to dominate his surroundings. >> by the way, i cannot help but reflecting that if my father had been american and my father british, instead of the other way around, i might have got here on my own. >>> why do we study first ladies? that was the question posed and answered at a conference titled "america's first ladies, 18 enduring vision." the conference was the second of three planned at presidential libraries in texas and was convened at the george w. bush presidential center in dallas. over the next hour, a panel

winston churchill. prime minister of great britain. interesting quote, we're going to have strange bed fellows here in world war ii. winston churchill, prime minister of great britain, franklin roosevelt, president in our war against hitler is going to be joseph stalin. interesting quote. if hitler invaded hell, i'd at least make a favorable reference to the devil in the house of commons. war makes strange bedfellows, and in this case we have the united states, great britain. long ties, long sympathies, long-time connection to history and culture and yet we also now have the soviet union as our ally to defeat the common foe of adolph hitler. so the leader of the soviet union, joseph stalin. what do we know about stalin early in the war? not much. what we know now is an awful lot. the greatest murderer of the 20th century. imprisoned more of his people into camps, murdered more of his own people than hitler killed jews. he is a ruthless, brutal, paranoid dictator of the soviet union. now when i say paranoid, i mean sort of schizophrenic

aboard and meet winston churchill, so she had met him. she didn't see him in 1961. she did see him in 1963. >> 325-foot yacht named christina. auch very nice yacht. >> how much time did you spend on it? >> from the time mrs. kennedy got on until she got off. it was about 10 days, i believe, almost. >> and why was she there? >> in august of 1963, she gave birth to a little boy, patrick bouvier kennedy, in massachusetts. and two days later, young patrick died, and mrs. kennedy became very depressed. and her sister lee flew in from london to be with her. lee and her husband, the prince radziwill, happened to be friends with onassis, and onassis had offered her yacht, made it available if she wanted to use it for mrs. kennedy's use, and they decided it would be a good idea for her to get away for a while and that yacht would make an excellent platform to just to tour the area and get away from everything. and president kennedy wanted her to do it. members of the staff were very concerned about her doing this, because they had a political year

it is about the members of parliament who rallied behind winston churchill who opposed -- orchestrated his rise or in the '30s. these two books, if you're interested in reading them back to back, it's a great look at in the early stages of world war ii and i highly recommend them. >> for more information, visit booktv.org. >> many of you might not have even been born in 1973 and 1974 when this took place. but richard nixon, in one of the biggest landslides in the united states, which meant most americans who voted in that election voted for him. yet, when facts came out, suggesting that laws were violated, the american people, and including the overwhelming majority that had supported richard nixon said congress, you have to investigate and you have to have a special prosecutor. the laws have to be enforced no matter what. in the end, when they asked him on a bipartisan basis to go for the impeachment of richard nixon, the company overwhelmingly supported a verdict. and what did that tell us? that more important than any political party, and more important than any president of the uni

senator kennedy wanted to meet winston churchill. they had arranged through mutual friends to go aboard and meet mr. churchill. she had met him. she did not see him in 1961. she did see him in 1963. >> 325 foot yacht named " christina." how much time did you spend on it? >> it was about 10 days, i believe. >> why was she there? >> this was 1963. she gave birth to a bill or a in massachusetts. today's letter, a young patrick died. mrs. kennedy became very depressed. her sister flew in from london to be with her. she and her husband happened to be friends with on nasa's -- onassis. he made the yacht available and they decided it would be a good idea to get away and that would make an excellent platform to tour the area and get away. president kennedy wanted her to do it. members of the staff for free concerned about her doing this because it was -- there were concerned about how it will book. the president insisted cheaper -- be permitted to do it. the wind up into turkey and came back out it was part of the cruise's. >> in your opinion

winston churchill is third. >> that is 150. and 212 on the list and rounding out the top five. it is 239. we posted the entire list on the website. go there to check it out and see if the school is ranked on it. >> time for federal businesses and it left one guard dead and six injured. >> it was brought under control late sunday night. however hours after it began. >> they hold illegal immigrants and for charges may be deported. >>> people were wrongly convicted and convicted of erroneous crimes such as sexual assault. >> they say the universities, that they have detailed information. each of the defendants spend an average of 11 years behind bars before being freed. >> well, senate homeland senate committee will hold this on wednesday. it is involving u.s. military and secret service agents in columbia. it happened last month in advance of president obama's trip to the summit of the americas. it has so far result the dismissal of nine secret service members. agency heads are expected to testify. >> it is packed tonight at the billboard music awards. >> one in particular cleane

he just kind of showed up and said i'm winston churchill, i want to be a part of. this goes on a long-range desert group and drops into occupied yugoslavia. to work with tito. so bumby hears this story and he thinks boy, this is sure an interesting way to spend your time during the war. i wonder if we have anything like this. so if you're an mp second lieutenant and you're looking to join the intelligence organization, nobody is going to help you. so he's pretty much on his own, there's no signs, there's no table of organization, and one day in algeria, he goes to a camp, he makes his rounds looking to enforce various regulations. and this camp is kind of nondescript, but it has a fabulous mess hall. the food is head and shoulders above any other u.s. army food. he says what's going on here? why is the food so good? they said, oh, well, this unit has a french chef. they do not have a u.s. army chef. he says how do you join? he doesn't ask who are you? they said do you speak french? do you know your way around the french countryside? he says yes, you're in. it turns

they say winston churchill, napoleon, or pick a name. the president, his wife, whatever. watched a man giving a speech many years ago at columbia university, one of the sessions up the river, the hudson river. the speaker was a professor amitai etzioni, at that time of columbia university. it was the height of the energy crisis and it was a marvelous discussion about how we could live within the available resources we had, not history sources of energy, but all resources. i am lucky. this man that i wanted to meet, and i read his articles in the wall street journal -- in "the wall street journal call ends up in washington as a professor at the george washington university and i have gone to nell amitai etzioni. -in the very fortunate position to be able to introduce you to him. i will be back with the extraordinary amitai etzioni in a few moments. >> many have spoken out on the need to transitioned into a clean energy future. at exelon, we are acting, by 2020 we are committed to replacing more than 1500 million metric tons of gas emissions annually through greening operat

epic effort has remained largely unrecognized until now the worst journey in the world was how winston churchill described it the ten day through hell the arctic convoys were a vital lifeline of supplies to the soviet union with britain's east an ally in the grip of a nazi onslaught at just nineteen john c. is was a gunner on board one ship braving fierce seas bitter cold and a treacherous route infested by german u. boats never they are thin in the can you just imagine. wife's come in that. is the block of flats you just passed as who the wife say just picked us up picked us up just market or i just. bought perry bond we were fourteen thousand pretty a very dark and you know we've been lifted up because she could hear the screws turn in at the war. below and in the water this is the very ship john says don't his job was to man the n.t.a. craft guns against the heavy enemy fire from above but the onslaught came from the sea to the huge icy waves with the warmth even a ship this size just over eight hundred ships were dispatched in total in the convoys but one in eight never made it back britain

number one on the list winston churchill in potomac and that's number 57 nationally. wallet whitman in about a this is did and thomas s. wooten in rockville. poolsville is fourth and rounding out the top five walter johnson in bethesda. we pote posted the list of the -- posted the list of the schools on the website. find out where your school ranks at abc2 news.dome. >>> a royal-- abc2news.com. >>> prince harry honored for war efforts. british royals amog the guest at the 50 anniversary celebration. before accepting the award he met with wounded veterans. he receive the award from colin powell. >> if i may, i would like to accept the reward on behalf of my brother william, our foundation and all those on both sides of the atlantic that worked so tirelessly to support our wounded veterans but it canly for the guys because this is their award. >> third in line for the british thrown harry is the captain in the britain army air corps and this is his first trip to the united states since he took part in a helicopter training in california and arizona last year. it's 5:16.

and also he was -- he wrote the multivolume biography of winston churchill. as you probably know, churchill -- it was supposed to be written by rajd churndall ch, got through two books and he died. he turned it over to gilbert, which turned it into a much more ordinarily work and more complete, perhaps, lacked some of the human text. paul johnson, of course, is a conservative, one of the great conservative writers. "modern times" is very often -- people ask me for my christmas reading list and i give them the golden oldies. whitaker chambers and paul johnson. >> will there be another book? >> well, i can't believe -- i'm only 76, you know. and i can't believe it's my last book. i have -- i have never written a novel after my bad experience in college. i have had a project going on in my head for about 20 years. a novel on -- the name is the mercenary, a political novel. it's based -- it would be based on the experience of ernst during the 30 years war. i don't know if i'll write it or not. >> there's nothing in the laptop yet on that? >> not a word. >> robert

if you do not believe that, imagine a world war ii with britain led by a 25-year-old winston churchill. right? you need wisdom. you need wisdom. society's need wisdom and knowledge. they value older people. but operationally, functionally, you know, we slow down. we're less precise. we remember less. we're less effective than we could or should be. we asked the question of how complicated with the training be, and what did these things are reimbursable -- reversible? i will tell you, everything is reversible. everything can be improved. every dimension of the physical, functional brain can be reversed in a positive direction. it is all reversible. we're constructed to be basically reversible. so, first of all, we look at the process of the brain as it relates to the alertness of the brain. look at recovery. we look at the process as it relates to the intentional control of the bravin. we look at the accuracy as to how the brain receives information. is schematically approved by training. we can speed up the brain almost always by two to three-fold in an old animal or human not so far a

i am from montgomery county, went to winston churchill high school and went to the university of maryland for undergraduate work. you know, traveled all over the country and its nostalgic and wonderful to be home, mostly because of the people but also because of the environment. it's just wonderful to be here today. i acted like to thank my parents and of course my beloved tuesday, my service dog, my caretaker, my brother and in some ways my prosthetic, but my tuesday, my kindred spirits really, who saved my life, and while that may be the subtitle of the book, a wounded warrior and the golden retriever who saved him, some people think or wonder if that is hyperbole, or they may ask, well, what did tuesday do? did he sniff out a bomb? did he, you know, pull you from a burning car or something of that sort. and i say, no, he does much more than that. he saves my life every day. he helps me physically and psychologically with a number of the wounds of war, and he helps me get up in the morning. he will retrieve my shoes and the things that i need so that i don't have to bend over and aggrav

it took president franklin roosevelt across the atlantic for his 1943 meeting with winston churchill and joseph stalin. the ship's final destination is los angeles and it will open as an interactive museum come july. >>> all right, it was a birthday celebration that didn't go quite as planned. an 80-year-old california woman decided to go skydiving for her big day, but she never envisioned this. all right. it's difficult to see, very scary, heart-stopping moments there, but she actually began slipping out of the harness there. fortunately, laverne everett and her instructor who was holding on to her ever so tightly, they both landed safely. our affiliate kovr spoke to the daring lady on her harrowing experience. >> i just wanted to do it. >> reporter: the daredevil herself, 81-year-old laverne everett. laverne, who lives in this modest studio apartment in oakdale says she craves a little excitement once in a while. so last year for her 80th birthday, she decided to jump out of a plane. when you're telling your family you want to skydive, what's their reaction to you? >> what's their

almost half a century on, winston churchill still manages to dominate his surrounders. >> by the way, i cannot help for reflecting that if my father had been american and my mother british, instead of the other way around, i might have got here on my own. [ laughter ] >>> this week on "the civil war," hari jones, curator and assistant director at the african-american civil war memorial and museum, talks about the contributions of the african-american women during the war. this the 90 minutes. >> good evening. when our founding director, dr. frank smith jr. and secretary of state colin powell dedicated the spirit of freedom, the african-american civil war memorial in july of 1998, attention was brought to one of the best kept secrets in american history. attention was brought to -- to the 209,145 soldiers and officers that were officially mustered into the bureau of united states colored troops. attention was brought to how these soldiers were organized, how they fought, and what they accomplished in the civil war. attention was brought to an african descent community that fought to sa

again, quo tote -- to quote winston churchill, it is a terrible system. it is just better than any other one. i met with the brazilian supreme court. they have just met with the united states supreme court less than a month ago to deal with their issues. in brazil, every matter that comes before the supreme court of brazil, they had 80,000 cases last year, 80,000, obviously, no justice. you cannot have a system that wants to review 80,000 cases. i do think our appellate system could use some tweaking, but by and large, the florida -- i am not sure i agree with that -- almost certainly respected -- the florida supreme court's motto is, you'll appreciate this, i will not give you the latin version, but the translation is "soon enough, if correct." that is the actual motto. sometimes soon enough is not soon enough. you are correct. as you know, professor, the supreme court of the united states takes such few cases that usually the intermediary court decision is the final one. we have to fill the bench. it is going to be worse every day if we have an empty fe

>> i always go back to that great winston churchill quote "you can always count on the americans to do the right thing afteafter they've tried everythg else." we've kind of tried everything else now. >> reporter: just like the rest of congress the members of the gang of eight are often divided so crafting legislation is a slow process, scott, especially when you consider that they are proposing leave nothing pocket of the federal government untouched by either cuts or reforms. >> pelley: interesting to hear warn err democrat and coburn a republican on the same page. nancy, thanks very much. the u.s. economy is showing new signs of life. the government reported today that production at america's factories rose .6% in april compared to the previous months and home construction in april was up 30% over the same month last year. a lawsuit aimed at stopping a tactic that police say the vital, the stop-and-frisk policy. a new tragedy for the kennedy family. and is this a way to spot autism in infants? when the "cbs evening news" continues. kiwi. soy milk. impulse buy. gift horse. king crab.

places and long tradition among british writers to write about the american civil war, including winston churchill so there's always been an interest there a serious interest and some sort of classic text from british authors through the mid 20th century. >> there's at least one place i think there is a boom in interest abroad in the civil war, which is to stay in the world of international human rights, we now live in a world in which for international law purposes our armed conflicts are non-international armed conflicts, this is called niaks. i'm not on the inside. and for that population, which is to say the armed conflicts that are going on around the world t united states civil war has become the quintessential reference point because it produces a body of international law that specifically for the kinds of conflicts not between states, so there is a huge boom among military lawyers, ngos, a specialized interest but it's important. >> it's interesting that reminds me the way you guys are talking about this that one of the subjects that does have international interest is cessession. it's ha

kennedy, acting on behalf of a grateful nation, designated him an honorary american citizen, winston churchill paid his own heart-felt tribute to his transatlantic origins. appearing before a joint session of congress on the day after christmas

including winston churchill. so there's always been an interest there. a serious interest. in some sort of classic text has come from british authors. late 19th century down through the mid 20th. >> there's at least one place where i think there's a boom in interest abroad in the civil war, which is to say in the world of international human rights and humanitarian law ngos. we now live in a world in which for international law purposes our armed conflicts are non-international armed conflicts. this is an acronym. you call them niacs if you're on the inside. i'm not on the inside. and for that population, which is to say the kinds of armed conflicts that are going on all around the world, the united states civil war has become the quintessential reference point, both because it produces a body of international law, and it produces a body of international law specifically for the kinds of conflicts -- not conflicts between states. so there is a huge boom of military lawyers, ngos. it's really -- it's a specialized kind of interest. but it's really important. >> it's interest

winston churchill paid his own tribute. appearing before a joint session of congress 1941, he observed i cannot help reflecting that if my father had been american and my mother british, instead of the other way around, i might have got here on my own. today outside the british embassy on massachusetts avenue, churchill literally describes two nations with one bronze foot planted on british soil and the other on american. this pleased the old man himself no end. of the

winston churchill said a decision not taken is nonetheless a decision. and, you know, our country, day after day, we see the results of decisions and not taken. i am thinking today particularly about the infrastructure, and quite possibly about the space program. we decided not to pursue serious manic-space exploration, not to go back to the moon, for example. whether that is good or bad does not matter, but a shock will come to our country when people from another country, probably from china, walk on at the moon, where we walked all those decades ago. it is going to be a shock, a decision not taken was the decision to but more so, it happens all the time with the infrastructure. we take decisions and not to build this, not to repair that, not to tax something else. in europe, whether it was right or wrong, they took decisions to build a lot of trains, to build a lot of public transportation, and on the whole, it has quite enjoyable public spaces. we have put our national resources, our national inclination for how we shall live in other places. by not

winston churchill was absolutely right, we always do the right thing, but always after exhausting every other possibility. and we're in the midst of exhausting every other possibility right now. why should we want to do the right thing and what is the right thing? well, i don't think that's a big mystery to most of us. the right thing is to live in peace, freedom, for individuals to have rights and responsibilities, for them to be able to change their governments as they wish, for there to be transparency and accountability. for minority, women, religious, to have rights protected by the state and for the state otherwise to not dictate too much else into the economic or private lives of the individual. sounds okay to most of us i'm sure with a few tweaks here and there. well, that's how we live for the most part. and i think that that's how most people wish to live. again, with certain tweaks to the parameters of it. but certainly that's how most people wish to live. and many don't. many particularly in the middle east don't. and what does that do when so much power is repossessed in th