winston churchill and john f. kennedy. did in your book quite well, which is talk about how the older man, the brit, influenced the younger american? >> well, sure, everybody knows that joe kennedy had an immense impact on his son, jfd. but churchill was the intellectual godfather of jfk from a very early age. there were people who saw jfk sick in bed at age 15 reading winston churchill's books. so he had a profound impact on his thinking, his view of the world. >> you know, my father, who is a republican and a real nixon guy back in '60 would say, and it stayed with me, he said, when you listen to kennedy, there's a touch of churchill there. >> absolutely. he invoked winston churchill's name quite a bit in the 1960 campaign. when we think of the inaugural address, it is replete with churchillian imagery, the idea of human freedom, that we should stand for freedom in the world. he took on that burden from churchill and it was jfk who carried it through his administration. >> and he would sit in the bathtub listening to rec

and not only that, but when pearl harbor happened, roosevelt called winston churchill in his home in england and he said we're at war, on your side. the japanese have attacked us. it was about 9:00 in the evening and churchill was having his dinner. and instead of being shocked that his own forces were being destroyed in the far east, he was elated because he told the american ambassador john winant who was with him then at dinner, we're saved. he said, we're saved. we're going to win the war. we're saved because america has entered the war. but he added, i must get to the white house to talk to the president about how to win the war. and john said why not give him some time to digest what is going on. churchill said i must go, before he makes some very bad decisions. churchill was the one who usually made the bad decisions, by the way. and i great many of them were bad. but churchill was advised not to fly because the north atlantic crossing was very bad, he could only get as far as labrador at best and then he would have to fly further into the united states. it might take three fli

winston churchill was remembered for his speeches steering britain through years of war, but people don'tnow one of his secrets was painting. some of his works have hit the auction block. >> >> i'll on hall day, he spent a good deal of his time painting. >> for many, he is a political master who steered his country through the second world war. for almost half a century, though, winston church him's private passion was painting. it provided an escape from a depression which jen gulfed him during world war i. fifty years after his death, some of his work is being sold. >> winston churchill only painted one picture during the second world war. just before the war broke out and on his final painting trip, he apparently said this is the last picture we shall paint in peace for a very long time. >> churchill isn't the only leader who's used art to express himself. adolf hitler also painted. while churchill used a pseudonym for his first exhibition, others such as former u.s. president, and oils man george w. bush and russia's vladimir putin of less shy about showing their work. >> a lot of peo

sir winston churchill. sir winston was born into a family with a long and distinguished military history. one of his ancestors was the first duke of marlborough. after the duke's spectacular victory over the french at the battle of blenheim in 1704, a grateful english queen granted him this amazing palace. the duke dutifully named it blenheim. it was here in 1874 that winston leonard spencer-churchill was born. today blenheim and its sprawling grounds are open to the public to visit. sir winston grew up to become a war correspondent, a soldier, and eventually a politician. when he became prime minister, england was in its darkest hour. hitler's aggression had triggered world war ii. the germans defeated every european country that stood against them except the british isles. every day, the brave british expected the nazis to invade. more than tanks and soldiers, it was the words of prime minister churchill that the british found most heartening. >> "we shall fight on the beaches. we shall fight on the landin

winston churchill said that it was the most important battle of the war, the most decisive battle of the war of 1812, here. two days later, the british will fight the americans at baltimore. >>> when the naval battle was over and the british withdrew, all that was left were the dead and the wounded and the american forces. out on the navy ships, the wounded were taken off an brought into town, to kent-delord and other homes and treated. the dead were put in a cure taj and brought to the shores, and in a funeral parade led by general mccom and commodore mcdonough, they slowly came here to riverside cemetery just outside of the downtown area. to muffled drums, they marched slowly and deliberately here to the ground. the lead cure taj led the body of commodore dowdy. he's buried here at riverside cemetery. but they were not just royal navy sailors. there were british army dead, american sailors who had died in the conflict, as well as british sailors who had died. 200 of them were taken to crab island, because it was close to where the ships were being refurbished and kept afloat. anoth

if i was prince william, i would have taken that winston churchill bus, i would have brought it back put it smack in front of the president. you didn't want it before, you're getting it back. >> you should do that, you should really try to ask them some serious history questions. >> i think they're going to the nets game tonight, then they're going to meet chelsea clinton. >> it's time for one more thing. >> this date 1980, john lennon was killed by mark david chapman, it's a terrible thing and we mishim and we still miss him. >> you know what one of the fun things to do -- >> i want to say congratulations to julie adams. here's her picture here. julie adams worked in the bush white house for laura bush. she was named the new senate secretary, the secretary of the senate, which has all sorts of responsibilities, administrat e administrative, legal, financial, she's in charge of a lot of different people. i want to congratulate her on that. >> i didn't say my wildest dreams, because i knew she was going to be successful, but i didn't think she would become secretary of senate. >> over

winston churchill described him after his death as a high interpreter.also a great friend of the librarian archibald macleish. indeed, after his unlimely death, mcleish accepted on behalf of the library and on the request of his sisters, philip's death mask. on that occasion, lord halifax spoke of his life long association with america and his unshakeable trust in the common sense and judgment of our two peoples. halifax believed that the choice of the library as the permanent resting place of this memorial was, and i quote, symbolic of the community of thought that belongs to those who have inherited free institutions and find in these the expression of their own love of freedom. supreme court judge frankfurt, also a close friend, spoke too of lothian's courage through the dark days of 1940. but it is his own speech at the handover on 28 november 1939, he gave a speech that best conveys his sentiments. he began almost mischievously by asking, why all this trouble, about what he described as a medieval relic. then he gave his answer. the almost self-evid

[laughter] winston churchill was 5'6" inches. >> what are you saying? 5'6" is great? [laughter] >> when no one was looking, i lay down on his deathbed. i fit perfectly. unless you think i am a midget -- the reason people think he was was because of the british caricatures. these wonderful caricatures all making out to be small. >> vanity? >> a huge amount. by the time he got obesely fat when he was 41 -- >> really? >> unfortunately. i don't know how. this was also when he was having problems with the system. trying to close down british trade. he got fat. he hid all the beautiful statues made of him as a young, beautiful man. he had them boxed up and hidden because he didn't want to be ridiculed. >> there are some question of his death. >> there has been for so long. >> there is no controversy? no serious person has gone for it? >> there was an autopsy with doctors present. they pulled his stomach out. there's no part riddled with cancer. it was in the family. >> what do you think he was proudest of? >> he said, the achievement of my battles have been wiped out, which

winston churchill looking back after 1914 wrote no part of the great war compares an interest with the opening, the measured silent drawing together of gigantic forces and the uncertainty of their deployment and the fick role of chance made it a drama never surpassed. never again would battle be waged from so grand of a scale and never again would the slaughter be so swift or the stakes so high. what's incredible like so much of world war i, they are enshrouded in myth. some were simply propeganta. they planned entry and a white charger and the white dress uniform of the guards. the 20 meter long german flag especially made to fly from the top of the eiffel tower. the railroad cars loaded with metal that accompanied first army alone. other myths were the product of ambitious writers and myth makers. the general knows alleged disa baying order to abandon on the sea early in the war.@?ñjñ equally a myth, the bef saved the day by exploiting the gap between german 50 and second armies. other myths were more harmful and attested to the centrality in the history of the great war. the largest

winston churchill looking back after 1914 wrote "no part of the great war compares in interest with its opening. the measured silent drawing together of gigantic forces. the uncertainty of their deployment. the fickle role of chance made the first collision a drama never surpassed. never again would battle," he wrote," be waged on so grand a scale. never again would the slaughter be so swift or the stakes so high." what's incredible, as so much of world war i, the marne is also enshrouded absolutely in myth. some were simply propaganda. the kaiser's planned entries the white dress uniform of the guards, the 20-meter-long german flag especially made to fly from the top of the eiffel tower. the ten railroad cars loaded with metals for the almedals for the fall of paris that accompanied first army alone. other myths were the product of ambitious writers and mythmakers. general did he castrostrocastros general ferdinand's communique that while his position in the marshes was quote "impossible, i attack," pure myth. another general's command to the staff on the eve of the battle accentuated

so, he decided, and he knew from the past -- iin graduate and he had worked on the of winston churchillso, he said his book offices way that winston's book office had been set up. i knew how randolph had said that office up. so, nixon knew that that sort of experience could apply to the writing of his autobiography. ended in e transition february, he asked if i would on an organized the researching and writing of his memoirs. that's what i did. my parents came to visit. this is as in the former western white house office, where they met the president. >> the man on nixon's right is a clean shaven gannon. good news is ford also gave pardon on gannon's mustache. >> so often you wish you knew -- you knew then what you know now. about my ust talking hair. we will see a picture shortly of the staff. we were wonderful people. he was lucky to have us. but you think, if you would have the nixon staff, it would the convention center, there would have been 2500 in the executive branch -- to august 9, st 8 this was the western white house staff. you see friends of the library here will recognize t

when you have two figures like winston churchill and john f. out why we study history and why people get involved in government. >> you say that jfk grew up reading churchill's history books. >> he did. >> he loved the guy and yet when they came together for their meeting, it was very awkward. why? >> that's in 1958 on a boat with onassis who is flirting with jackie. first time that jackie meets onassis. the meeting with jfk and winston is old and it's a disappointment for jack. >> of course more on that later. let's go back to meetings with this interworking. obviously joe kennedy was on the exact opposite side of winston in 1940 going into the war, but they scratched each other's backs very well. >> that's the big find in my book. as you point out, most of history about the kennedys and churchills were written after world war ii so most people say they hated one another. of course they very much did disagree over the war. but prior to that, they were friendly. they were friendly with people like lord beaver brook and they had a number of diffe

[laughter] i was the research assistant on the official life of winston churchill written by his son. and so we set our book offices up the same way that churchill's book offices were set up. these with through the world crises and the second world war, so i knew how randall set that up. so nixon knew that that could of it -- that experience could have affected it. he asked if i would stay on an organized the research and writing of his memoirs. so that is what i did. this is a picture of my parents who came to visit. this was us in the former western white house office where they met the president. the man to nixon's immediate right is a clean-shaven gannon. he had given an immediate pardon to his mustache. [laughter] >> i wish i had known the things that i know now, and i am just not talking about my hair. but we are going to see a picture shortly, or maybe next, of the staff. we were wonderful people and he was lucky to have us, and he appreciated that. but you would think on august 8, if you had the nixon staff, it would take us to the convention center, and there was 300 of us in

interestingly, contrary to what winston churchill much of the victories get to write the history of lost cause but actually animate mainstream tech for most of the 20th century the north and south had it. that's changed quite a bit as the research in the north and south discount. and the most essential of his assertions went cannot preserve slavery but states rights and it's now regarded by most historians as i will put this carefully a disingenuous overstatement. one who bears some responsibility for that as jefferson davis himself and was pictured over the mantle because tellingly in his 1881 memoir arrived to the fall of the government which he wrote here he originally wanted to call our cause all of which is to say it is the flipside of the misunderstandings i grew up with about why my ancestors put on blue uniforms. so just in that vein i want to take a quick detour. one of the places i visited was in concord massachusetts. this was the home of ralph waldo emerson and it was here i grasped how wrongheaded it is to presume that average mid-19 century farmers and factory workers in ne

winston churchill saying there is an iron curtain.all this time while the united states has nuclear weapons and the soviet union does not. and yet the weapons are not used again. good. but we know -- clearly we have discussed -- obviously, they will not stay this way. our greatest fear is when the soviets will get the bomb. but one thing the soviets do is work that much harder to get the bomb, not simply in their own science, their own technology, there are military, but they start to use espionage. and the cold war becomes a war that relies there he heavily on spying, on espionage, and our manhattan project gets penetrated even greater, even further. part of whatomes the soviets used to put their bomb together. the soviets now need the bomb. we have it. they need it. of 1949, we enter into a nuclear world where the two sides, the two primary belligerents in this new cold .ar have nuclear weapons the soviets detonate an atomic bomb in august of 1949 and now it's on. the race now becomes to produce the most nuclear weapons and the bigg

for war at that time, the equivalent of our defense minister, our secretary of defense today, winston churchill and in the book i describe the scene as churchill and daniels discussing the post war naval treaty over brandy and cigars, all of which were consumed by churchill since daniels neither drank nor smoked. and the relationship was not a warm one. and it was not one that they perpetuated. churchill told daniels that the british had to maintain because of the nature of its empire, the british had to maintain the largest navy in the world. and daniels told churchill that because of what he had learned, he, daniels, had learned during the first world war that the united states had to have the world's largest, most powerful navy. and so churchill said okay. i'm putting this in my own words. i'm not as eloquent as churchill so i'm paraphrasing for you here. churchill says go ahead. daniels says we will, suspecting rightly that the british will not be able to continue to fund a naval building program at the same rate that the united states could fund building program. one of the reasons being b

we will hear about how president roosevelt and ritter's foreign minister winston churchill navigated that first christmas after america entered world war ii. americanear about how soldiers marked christmas from the revolutionary war through the korean war. franciscan university hosted this event. it is about one hour. >> good evening. it is a pleasure to be here. stanley weintraub finished up as thers at penn state professor of arts and humanities. he joined the department of english september 1 1956. i think i was in fourth grade. [laughter] he was an instructor. inbecame a full professor 1965. a research professor in 1970. and the evan pugh professor in 1986. areas ofraub's specialization include biographies and cultural history, and of course 19th and 20th century drama. on the table, we see many of his books, some of which were devoted to our topic tonight, wartime christmases. during his 43 years at penn weintraub published 45 books. he never stopped when he retired. nobody knows for sure how many he has published, but i think it is up to 60 or thereabouts. on and on. ladies and

for war at that time, the equivalent of our defense minister, our secretary of defense today, winston churchill and in the book i describe the scene as churchill and daniels discussing the post war naval treaty over brandy and cigars, all of which were consumed by churchill since daniels neither drank nor smoked. and the relationship was not a warm one. and it was not one that they perpetuated. churchill told daniels that the british had to maintain because of the nature of its empire, the british had to maintain the largest navy in the world. and daniels told churchill that because of what he had learned, he, daniels, had learned during the first world war that the united states had to have the world's largest, most powerful navy. and so churchill said okay. i'm putting this in my own words. i'm not as eloquent as churchill so i'm paraphrasing for you here. churchill says go ahead. daniels says we will, suspecting rightly that the british will not be able to continue to fund a naval building program at the same rate that the united states could fund building program. one of the reasons being b

the blood, the toweil, the swea the tears to quote a great guy by the name of winston churchill, it is enormous. it is a full-time job. it is hard. >> it is hard. >> are you angry? >> we don't know what we need to do exactly. i don't know what's coming back or not or what have you. you don't know anything about what you wanted to do. we go back to ferguson. >> that's your store right now. >> yes. >> hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage? >> more. >> if you wore rowed from last time you are not going to get it back. >> no, no. that's very hard. you want to find the money>> you won't be back. >> i hope so. pray for me to come. >> yen you guys have been on the protest p us. tell us what papped first in august. >> it was pretty much the same thing they were lucky luckily it wasn't successful. it was just the thought and feeling of, oh, no, not again. i don't think unless you have been in a situation like this people don't legalize how much hard work it is to run a business and then on top of that have somebody try to ruin your business completely. and you've there for four, five, six,

winston churchill said a pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity. opportunity in every difficulty. jamie is an optimist and she sees the gold. ♪ >> this morning we're starting out in aurora. we're going to check out the three locations we applied for in the three different wards. we're hoping to find out the cost overall, get the blueprints drawn out. and starting them. >> this is nice and open. it's like a blank slate. >> that way we can get the licenses, we're ready to turn them in, and hopefully open on october 1st. >> what is the timeline realistically? >> realistically is to do it in september when i get back. >> that means we won't open in october then. did you know this? >> no. he just told me that he's going out of town. >> for two weeks. how are we going to find another architect? >> opening october 1st in aurora is critical. there's a lot of new businesses that are going to be out here. we want to be the first. now the architect is saying there's a structure problem with the second location. >> he's saying to not put the money in this one.

my hero winston churchill knew just where he stood.efuse to be impartial, he once said, between the fire brigade and the fire. and all these incidents of recent months in which police officers were involved and blamed for misconduct or worse, tried to let the juries do the job. i've acted as a reporter and observer, not as a judge, juror, or prosecutor. i didn't have enough facts to play those roles, to have anything to offer in the matter. these were particular events involving particular facts that only a trial jury gets to hear, gets their hands on to make a considered judgment. this horror in new york this weekend is of a different kind. there's no dispute over what happened, no difference of perspective, no argument certainly over the motive. two innocent police officers were executed by a career criminal. 19 arrests, two years in prison, who had that day shot his ex-girlfriend. they were shot based on the clear-cut evidence of intent left by the killer himself. because they were police officers. because of that, and only that. we

we talked about theodore -- margaretd marked thatcher in winston churchill, but we always tried to definewhat are the qualities that make a leader, and there are lots of them. perseverance, communication, vision, teamwork, trust, but the last one on the list and the one that brings me back to tom is always character. an indefinable quality. you cannot really put a specific definition to it, but people like lincoln had it, and ernest shackleton had it. chamberlain from maine had it. eleanor roosevelt had it, and it involves a competition of qualities that i think tom embodies, and almost all of them have been mentioned here today. honestyy, intelligence, , faith, belief in principle and daring to stand for principle. it is the hardest thing to teach , but it is the easiest thing to see, and the reason i felt so privileged to get to know this man for such a short. keeper of time is that he has shown me what character is all about. joys ofne of the great my life to have had these two years to get to know you, if only slightly. it is one of the great sadnesses of my life that it has only been

and in the end i think it was winston churchill who said america always manages to do the right thing we try to do everything else and i think that will happen in education as well, fa fareed. >> pleasure to have you on. >> thank you. >> next on "gps" there's e-mail, e-commerce, ebooks, and now esmth residency. why your digital economy could be e stonian. like my potassium and phytosterols which may help lower cholesterol. stonian. supports your heart and body residency. why your digital economy could be estonian. eresidency. why your digital economy could be estonian. now eresidency. why your digital economy could be estonian. the bed reacts to your body. e-commerce, ebooks, and now eresidency. why your digital economy could be estonian. -residency. why your digital economy could be estonian. visit your local retailer and feel the tempur-pedic difference for yourself. >>> today is the 73rd anniversary of the japanese attack on pearl harbor. the following day, december 8th, 1941 -- >> a date which will live in infamy. >> u.s. president franklin delano roosevelt made his famous pearl h

now we have winston churchill who famously said, "if you're going through hell, keep going."ee the first draft. "if you're going through hell, tell hitler i said "what's up, bitch?" [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] will do. will do, winston. [ cheers and applause ] next we have that motivational kitten poster that says "hang in there." very nice. let's see that cat's first draft. "hang in there? here's a better idea. help me out of this [ bleep ] tree." [ laughter ] somebody help that baby cat. and next we have sammy davis jr. who said, "the ultimate mystery is one's own self." and his first draft, "the ultimate mystery is this ikea shelf." [ laughter ] hard to put together. hard to put together for anyone. even harder for sammy, only had the one eye. [ light laughter ] i believe if anyone can put that shelf together -- [ sammy davis jr. impression ] the candy man can. [ applause ] finally, we have santa. "rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you guide my sleigh tonight?" we all know that one. let's see his first draft. "rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you come

and the blood, the toil, the sweat, the tears, to quote a great guy by the name of winston churchill,t's enormous. i don't think most people know what goes into building a business. it's hard. it's a full-time job. >> it's really, really hard. >> are you angry? >> too much. we don't know what we need to do exactly. you know, i don't know if we need to come back or not. we don't know what's happened. you don't know anything. you don't know what you want to do. we're talking we coming back to ferguson -- >> that's your store now that we're showing. >> yes. that's our store. >> hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. >> exactly. more than hundred -- >> if you borrowed from the last time -- >> no, no, no. that's very hard. very hard. you need to replace everything inside. >> unbelievable. >> money just to come back to business. >> you won't be back. >> i hope so just for you to come. >> we have yen and your dad, you've been on the program with us. we watched -- we have video of the delwood market. tell us about what happened first in august and what happened here. we're showing the vi

my hero winston churchill knew just where he stood.be impartial, he once said, between the fire brigade and the fire. and all these incidents of recent months in which police officers were involved and blamed for misconduct or worse, tried to let the juries do the job. i've acted as a reporter and observer, not as a judge, juror, or prosecutor. i didn't have enough

(laughter) and winston churchill was 5'6". when i went to longwood, the house he died on, when nobody was looking when i was making the tv series, i laid down on his death bed and it fit perfectly. the reason people think he was a midget was because of the british caricaturists who made him out to be small for political reasons. >> charlie: vanity? a huge amount of vanity. by the time he got obesely fat -- >> charlie: when was that? i'm so disappoint to hear that. >> 1811 and onwards, when he was 41. unfortunately, by 1811, he was enormous. i don't know how, because he never ate more than 20 minutes at any meal. and this was also when he was really having problems with the continental system where he was trying to close down british trade and he did get fat. what he did was to hide all the beautiful statues by canova made of him when he was a young man and a beautiful young man and he had them boxed up and hidden from the public because he didn't want to be ridiculed. >> charlie: there's some question about his death. >> there

and the blood, the toil, the sweat, the tears, to quote a great guy by the name of winston churchill, it's enormous. i don't think most people know what goes into building a business. it's hard. it's a full-time job. >> it's really, really hard. >> are you angry? >> too much. we don't know what we need to do exactly. you know, i don't know if we need to come back or not. we don't know what's happened. you don't know anything. you don't know what you want to do. we're talking we coming back to ferguson -- >> that's your store now that we're showing. >> yes. that's our store. >> hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. >> exactly. more than hundred -- >> if you borrowed from the last time -- >> no, no, no. that's very hard. very hard. you need to replace everything inside. >> unbelievable. >> money just to come back to business. >> you won't be back. >> i hope so just for you to come. >> we have yen and your dad, you've been on the program with us. we watched -- we have video of the delwood market. tell us about what happened first in august and what happened here. we're showing the