churchill institutions. the national churchill library center and the national churchill museum that it will ensure that these two sister institutions not only cooperate as allies, but promote the memory of winston churchill in north america. importantly, they will flourish together far better that each could do on their own. ics will also be based at this newly purpose built facility, the nclc, to introduce a new acronym in a city full of alphabet acronyms. there we will welcome bright readers, writers, researchers, scholars and the just plain curious to explore the life and legacy of churchill, using a growing and unique archive of documents, books and electronic media. the collection will expand. exhibitions and high profile events will be organized. from here are flourishing journals will continue to be published. the nclc will make meaningful and original contributions to churchill studies. symposia and lectures and debates will always be happening. links to our sister institutions in britain and fulton

churchill institutions. the national churchill library center and the national churchill museum that it will ensure that these two sister institutions not only cooperate as allies, but promote the memory of winston churchill in north america. importantly, they will flourish together far better that each could do on their own. ics will also be based at this newly purpose built facility, the nclc, to introduce a new acronym in a city full of alphabet acronyms. there we will welcome bright readers, writers, researchers, scholars and the just plain curious to explore the life and legacy of churchill, using a growing and unique archive of documents, books and electronic media. the collection will expand. exhibitions and high profile events will be organized. from here are flourishing journals will continue to be published. the nclc will make meaningful and original contributions to churchill studies. symposia and lectures and debates will always be happening. links to our sister institutions in britain and fulton

churchill. this is 90 minutes. >> good morning churchillians. i want to begin by congratulating all of you, you hearty churchillians for joining us at this un-churchillian hour of 9:00 a.m. churchill was, we all know, a man of tremendous energy. but i can't help but feel that if we lived in a true spirit of churchill, we'd probably all still be in bed at this point in the day though, of course, we would have read all the newspapers and work through all of the daily correspondence by this point. now, of course, unfortunately, i feel many of us are probably lacking in the amount of domestic and sectarial assistance that sir winston had. perhaps our failure to emulate his morning routine is pardonable. i'm a senior research fellow at the margaret thatcher center for freedom at the heritage foundation in washington, d.c. the title of our panel today on great contemporaries has a truly churchillian ring to it. i'm delighted to be joined by three churchillians who will be discussing men who played ver

churchill was proposing. see -- say that's politics but it was of course , because truman was uncertain of his position. he had not been elected and knew he would face a tough struggle being reelected. the roosevelt family was very powerful and they immediately campaigned against what churchill has been proposing. so we come to end of his visit to america. he goes to new york, time to board the queen mary, and new york is divided. there's a ticker tape parade for winston, given the freedom of the city and also 4,000 demonstrators of the streets saying, "no war for winston." divided. churchill is over the moon. he is delighted. his morale is completely restored. he is right back in the midst of consecutive controversy, debate, all the thing head loves, and he returns to the united kingdom elated and arrives five hours late, fog in the channel, and a little dinner party has been planned for him by lord salisbury with anthony eaten and they rehearsed the line they intended to take. the line is, well, winston, wo

churchill. meanwhile, jennie -- and i think this is so new york style -- jennie refused to be idle. she raised money from american friends and she paid and organized for a hospital ship to go to south africa to care for the injured. the next picture shows jennie in the middle as chief nurse on board her own hospital ship she had organized. i think that takes quite a lot of courage to do that. unfortunately, winston was trusted in looking after his younger brother jack and winston took his younger brother jack to go and see some action. and within 15 minutes, jack was shot in the leg. and here is jack being cared for by his mother on board her hospital ship. indeed, jennie's work in the south african campaign was so admired by the soldiers that a huge cannon involved in the siege of ladysmith was renamed the lady randolph churchill. you might notice it but on the other side of the carriage is written the lady randolph. that's what we used to bombard the poor bores. it was a role that jennie also

churchill institutions. the national churchill library and center and the national churchill museum. it will ensure these sister institutions not only cooperate as allies but promote the memory of winston churchill in north america. importantly, they will flourish together far better than each could do on their own. ics will also be based at this newly purpose filled facility, clc, to introduce a new acronym in a city full of alpha that acronyms. readers,elcome writers, researchers, scholars, and the just plain curious to explore the life and legacy of churchill, using a growing and unique archival documents, .ooks, and electronic media the collection will expand. exhibitions of high-profile events will be organized. from here, our flourishing journals will continue to be published. the in clc will make meaningful and original contributions to churchill's studies. symposium and lectures and debates will always be happening. links to our sister institutions in britain and fulton will provide amazing opportuni

and the incomparable holders of the churchill archive center, churchill college, cambridge, will be available to visitors online. thanks to a generous a gift from the ics, the nclc can also boast a remarkable collection of churchill's second world war engagement diary cards. never before available to the public or to scholars. in addition, and by the way, these cards form a fascinating contemporary record of the prime ministers meetings and movements during the second world war. in addition to the originals, high resolution digital scans are available online and a remarkably successful crowd sourcing project has yielded detailed transcription. i'm pleased to announce you can read more about this historical treasure trove and the nclc in the "washington post" today. but the value of the nclc is not to be found in books, papers or pixels alone. the walls of the library will soon bring with the sounds of discussions and debates. as we host lectures by prominent historians, political figures, businesspeople and others, and explore the countless issues that touch upon the churchill's story. among

churchill, on the other hand, did. but frustrated, restless, and he would later admit, eager for trouble, he did not hesitate when he was invited to go along. before the sun came up, churchill had climbed into the first train car, an open truck from which he would have the best advantage. -- one of 13 children on an isolated farm about 100 miles west of durbin. he had received only a couple of years of formal education. but while he would never speak much english, he was fluent in several languages, and had fought with the zulu when he was just 22 years old. leading a group of boras to help the zula defeat his rival for the throne. on the day that churchill boarded the armored train, bota and his men were watching. long, loud, blowing a blast of smoke into the air, an absurdly easy target. not only did boten know where the train was going, he knew it would have to come back on the same tracks. as soon as the train passed, he ordered his men to move to the bottom of a hill and began piling rocks. when the train, on its

in 1993, churchill's last aboutary was interviewed churchill's tendency to we ep. when i was with them about three lot and hewept a said to him after dinner, i blubber an awful lot. you will have to get used to that. john asked, what would stimulate that? anthony replied, tales of heroism, the motions of tales of heroism. he loved animals, a noble dog struggling through this note to his master would inspire tears. it was touching and i found it acceptable. sweat, came to tears and church only about all of them, especially tears. lord halifax described him as having a child's emotion and demands reason. here are a few occasions through churchill's life in which he is recorded as crying. of september, 1897, he wrote to his friends, -- viewer to his mother, i really detect a genuine emotion myself of this great friend, lieutenant william brent clayton, who was killed close to him on the expedition. i must rank it as a rare instance the fact that i cried when i saw brown clayton literally cut to pieces on the stretcher. henry wilson, for the commander-in-chief of the b

he looks at churchill and churchill says magnificent. magnificent. [laughter] i think for churchill in a way gaulle did- de symbolize the honor of france and that's what you gave in the leeway he did. but he could be extremely irritating. and if churchill believed in victory, general de gaulle did not. when he becomes president of france he twice because britain's application to join the european union. ego so on the ground that he claims mr. churchill always told him he would choose the atlantic rather than the land. we don't know. believe he vetoes that is hurt. there was resentment he seems to have harvard after the second world war and had a profound effect on my country's relationship with the european union. of course i will never forget a time when angela merkel, the german chancellor came to address both houses of parliament in westminster. she said at one point in her britain has no need to prove that european credentials. it proved them in 1940. that is from the german chancellor. and of course she was absolutely right. one of the problems

churchill, on the other hand, did. frustrated, restless, and he would later admit, eager for trouble, he did not hesitate for a moment when holden invited him to go along. thate the sun came up morning, churchill had climbed into the first train car and open truck where he would have the best advantage. behind him was another armored car filled with men in their khaki uniforms and pink hats. the engine with its wide mouth, black funnel, and narrow tender and two more armored cars and finally, an ordinary car that held tools. , thee train cut across boers were silently and invisibly watching. a respected young general would become the first prime minister of south africa. --he could trace his family back to the first days of european settlement. he had a quintessentially boer childhood, one of 13 children on an isolated farm 100 miles west of durban. he had received only a couple of years of formal education. but while he would never speak much english, he was flowing to an afrikaans, but in the sulu and soto. he had ev

his son donated his papers to churchill, and it became deposited into the churchill sensor and a boring banker would be an historian like me, they are a dream, these papers. and you can see them. he took careful notes. he was a fellow mason, gave him a certain affinity with winston, and he was endlessly patient. and he always had faith and churchill. missed loan repayments, deadlines, or failed his photograph back under the published limit -- bernard tried to make sure hehin the bank's hierarchy, was given another chance. on the few days he wasn't, he would try to sort them out with insurance companies instead. the lady on the right, i am so glad you gave me your picture. does anybody know who she is? she is the russian s of , who by his 1862 y in left her own propert ireland, not her husband's property, malone -- she did not leave it to the eldest son. the eldest son and the children were always going to be looked after by the husband. a mother is worried about the younger children. estate to thehe children of her younger children. ok? knew sheby then, she least.ee grandsons at and the

churchill's monopolistic outlook is a problem, but i will take care of churchill. alas, for poor and anderson, it was really churchill who took care of the president. in september met 1944, at hyde park, churchill and roosevelt initialed an atomic understanding that is best remembered today for affirming their desire for joint anglo-american nuclear cooperation in wartime and peacetime. that contained a repudiation of and international control. historians debate whether fdr or justre churchill, let him think he agreed with his ideas. r prejudice anti-boh is unquestionable. he wrote at the time that niels bohr was all for giving away all the secrets. no he wasn't. churchill wondered whether he should be locked up. anderson was rather shocked by the attack on an honorable man. his mindded to set straight to the point that niels bohr retained his liberty until the end of the war. indeed, once the trinity test out in the wilds of new mexico proved that the atomic bomb was a real weapon, not just a radical, churchill's monopolistic convictions parted. at the same time,

churchill wrote also in the biography of marlboro about churchill. mr. churchill, the compression of circumstances, twinges of adversity, spur of slights and taunts -- sorry, am i flicking on? in early years i needed to evoke that ruthless purpose and tenacious mother wit without great actions are seldom accomplished. a hint here that both of them had some sense about their own childhood. so what of his personality and his character? he served in the first world war in the trenches. he wasn't particularly interested in people coming from the front to be examined and was thought there were skrim shankers and sent back to the front. later on he catches on maybe that there is something -- sorry, i beg your pardon. later on he catches on that something else is going on here. when he is researching there, poisoning with mustard gas and bringing along a number of these young people. he gets to the sense that maybe something different is going on. and so, coming to the end of things with the ravages of war, he really has a serious effect on the sense that this

churchill's father was lord randolph of churchill. harry true man was born ten years after churchill. in a small framed house. his father was a farmer and livestock speculator. in 1890s the truman's relocated to the town of independence missouri just outside of kansas city. in large measure to points higher vied-- provide a better education. young harry was a strong student at independence public high school. his family could not afford to send it even to a public university. instead he worked as a railroad time keeper. with no very clear plan for advancement whatever opportunities might have seemed cancelled when his father called him back to the country to help in the management of a farm that was owned bihar ri's grandmot r grandmother. drawn to the military experience he was turned down by an army recruiter because of his eyesight that required thick corrective glasses. active in his lodge and making frequent trip backs to independence to see a young lady nailed bess wallace he had known since his primary school days. it it change

churchill's father was lord randolph churchill. harry truman was born 10 years small,hurchill in a rigid frame in missouri and his father was a farmer and livestock speculator who in england might have been a tenant on the property of the duke of marlborough. in 1890 the trumans relocated to the town of independence missouri, just outside of kansas city. in large -- in a large measure to provide a better education for their son. studentrry was a strong at independence public high school. his family could not afford to send him even to a public instead, he worked for a time as a railroad timekeeper and then as a bank clerk in kansas city with no very clear plan for advancement. the cityopportunities might have offered him seemed canceled when his father called him back to the country to help in the management of a farm that was owned by harry's grandmother. drawn to the military experience, young harry was turned down by an army recruiter because of his myopic eyesight, which required sick, corrective , corrective glasses. he joined

churchill's father was lord randolph of churchill. harry true man was born ten years after churchill. in a small framed house. his father was a farmer and livestock speculator. in 1890s the truman's relocated to the town of independence missouri just outside of kansas city. in large measure to points higher vied-- provide a better education. young harry was a strong student at independence public high school. his family could not afford to send it even to a public university. instead he worked as a railroad time keeper. with no very clear plan for advancement whatever opportunities might have seemed cancelled when his father called him back to the country to help in the management of a farm that was owned bihar ri's grandmot r grandmother. drawn to the military experience he was turned down by an army recruiter because of his eyesight that required thick corrective glasses. active in his lodge and making frequent trip backs to independence to see a young lady nailed bess wallace he had known since his primary school days. it it change

churchill exploded to his wife. king talked more stupidly about the navy then i have ever heard him do before. it was so disheartening to hear this cheapened rebel for which he lets himself be filled up. churchill did not give way on that issue and in the end, he prevailed. what is going on in this first phase of his career was that all was not well. edward the seventh and george the fifth disliked churchill because they thought he was insufficiently respectful of their person, their position and he thought his views were right and theirs were wrong and they didn't like that. churchill was on intimidated and discussed what he thought were inappropriate interference with the politics. all that meant that when churchill fell over the disaster 1915, that news was greeted at buckingham palace with scarcely concealed belief wording on expressions of joy and pleasure. it is queen alexander who informed her son george the fifth, winston's fault who has upset almost everybody. george v took essentially essentially the same

what he learned from lincoln and churchill? churchill said this beautiful thing. he said in saying that all shabazz and could not ultimately succeed in this essay, he said they are trying to turn this into in facts. it is explosive variations are entirely the bowl. it wants a safeguard in the glory of mankind that it is easy to read and hard to drive. if you can read and you can read and you can way back, you can say well, isn't that how you would like to be governed, how everyone would like to be governed? i saw in that document a way to do that. it's not about me. this is about that. if you don't find that beautiful, what are you doing here? and if you do, once you help me do it and so we do not. >> besides writing books and teaching classes, what does the president of the college do? >> well, everything else -- you pay for getting those things. i work with fabulous people here very good at the job. every monday morning for an hour or two, we fit in my office single over everything from. there's always a long list. we try to keep the college straight. there's al

churchill, on the other hand, did. but frustrated, restless, and he would later admit, eager for trouble, he did not hesitate when he was invited to go along. before the sun came up, churchill had climbed into the first train car, an open truck from which he would have the best advantage. -- one of 13 children on an isolated farm about 100 miles west of durbin. he had received only a couple of years of formal education. but while he would never speak much english, he was fluent in several languages, and had fought with the zulu when he was just 22 years old. leading a group of boras to help the zula defeat his rival for the throne. on the day that churchill boarded the armored train, bota and his men were watching. long, loud, blowing a blast of smoke into the air, an absurdly easy target. not only did boten know where the train was going, he knew it would have to come back on the same tracks. as soon as the train passed, he ordered his men to move to the bottom of a hill and began piling rocks. when the train, on its

after that, she had lord randolph churchill. she was a withering figure in british society and she loved that spotlight. churchill adored his mother but, at a distance. he did not see his parents very much. his mother was busy. threw a huge benefit, wanted to put together a ship to go to south africa. she was in love with a young man who was only two weeks older than winston churchill. she told him, i going to marry george and he said, i think the family pressure will crush him. -- her son took this from her. she was very determined. she was having a great time. she ended up marrying george and it did not last. he ended up leaving her for another older woman who was an actress. mr. lamb: george cornwallis west was his name. short on brain. ms. millard: hansen, but, yeah -- handsome, but, yeah. mr. lamb: where do you find yourself having the most fun in the book? ms. millard: during his escape. untilis a lot to explain you get to that part of the story. understanding, what was he doing in south africa anyway? train and he the he

and i think that churchill adored his mother but, at a distance. he was put in boarding school at a very young age and did not see his parents much. his father was busy with his political career. his mother was busy with her parties, and churchill going to war, she threw a huge benefit, wanted to put together a ship, a hospital ship, to go to south africa. one of the reasons she wanted to go is that she was in love with a young man who was only two weeks older than winston churchill. and she tells him, look, i going to marry george and he said, i do not think you will. i think the family pressure will crush him. jenny -- heron took this from her. she was very determined. she did not care what anybody else thought. she was having a great time. and she did end up marrying george, and you will be shocked to learn that it did not last. just a few years, and he ended up leaving her for another older woman who was an actress. mr. lamb: george cornwallis west was his name. short on brain. [laughter] ms. millard: he was very handsome, but, yes, not an inte

at least, churchill came over. brook stayed in britain, but he signed onto the policy before churchill left. marshall was sent to london to negotiate the strategy that july by fdr, who told him it is of the highest importance that u.s. ground troops be brought into action against the enemy in 1942. he didn't want an entire year to go by from the german declaration of war on america to the point where american troops were going to fight back in the western theater. when marshall discovered in london that the british chief of staff and prime minister were not about to support a second front in mainland europe in 1942, thinking the germans were too strong and the american too -- too untried and too few in britain, he threatened to swing u.s. strategy towards japan first policy. directing 70% of american resources there and 30% towards europe rather than the situation under the germany first policy which was almost exactly vice versa. admiral king, who always supported japan first anyhow, as it would be a naval campaig

friends of the churchills. buy got together to churchill a rolls-royce. general sir robert laycock and oliver stanley. in dismal failure half an hour before clementina reported to her husband but mr. marshall did not refer to it once. the reason he was not there was he had taken four weeks off as leader of the opposition at the time to go to the wonderful hotel in marrakesh in morocco to write books and work on his memoirs and paint paintings. the idea of somebody today, a leader of the opposition, to be able to take off four weeks in the freezing cold london winter is quite remarkable. i rather wish hee was the british leader of the opposition. clementine continued in this letter to reporting to her husband. he talked much about you, mr. roosevelt. it seemed with ub often disagreed. he, the president, would direct sunlight over a cold subject to be considered leaving everything else in darkness. he did not like his attention called to aspects. from lack of time , he disregarded. he didn't actually use those wo

churchill cried again. in 1940 when harry hopkins told churchill he would get a million rifles from the usa churchill was vicely moved it tears. on the 13th of may 1940 coincidentally on the same day as blood toil tears and sweat speech, george recorded the the mp and dirist carol nicholson. tells winston how fond he is of him. winston cries slightly and mops his eyes. as church -- sorry be lord george's private secretary aj sylvester recorded. winston's eyes filled with tears. he buried his head quickly in his left hand and wiped his face. on the fourth of july 1940 he cried after the decision to sink the french fleet. when churchill finished his seat and the whole house irrespective of party affiliation jumped to its feet and applauded the prime minister for several minutes. loud powerful ovation. sitting on the treasury bench, tension draining, churchill lowered his head and tears ran down cheeks. a strong scene. at least a real leader was the cry ek yog through the lobbies. winston left the house and of

sterling to talk on churchill in washington. [applause] >> thank you. i appreciate it. thank you, jim. i said to david last night, what had i done wrong? how had i made him unhappy? number to be the last speaker one, after an intense day and a half, but worse, to follow andrew roberts and lunch comes right after me. i mean, good gravy. that is pretty tight. let's see if i can do this. let me start with some numbers. what i am talking about are the many trips that sir winston came here to washington. they span a period of six decades. lots of time. he came by lots of modes of transportation. those are two of my other hobbies. you're looking at the queen mary on the bottom. ship in longmuseum beach. you're looking at a boeing 314 flying boat, which was the luxury way to get across the atlantic prior to the end of the war. flying boats were much more common. they have virtually disappeared as we have plenty of landing spaces for land aircraft, which are easier to maintain. churchill took a round-trip on one of those boeing 314's wh

such to be in charge of anything learning from lincoln or churchill churchill, tuesday bolshevism could not have succeeded with the mass effect on modern life. and what he said in the paragraph before they're trying to turn this into insect. but he did nature is more to tractable. those explosive variations are unpredictable with the glory of mankind if you can read that then you can say is a that is how you like to be governed? allies sought a way to do that this is about me it is about that. if you don't find that beautiful, what are you doing here? if you do, help be. so that is why i came here. >> host: select does the president of a college do? >> everything else is trouble. [laughter] you pay for getting to do those things to be here monday morning they're all friends of mine very good at their job.

. >> what was your goal with the your book churchills trial? what will be learned greg. >> expends a lot of time to figure out what this means that is what i set out to do >> what did you learn greg. >> the book was a lot harder to write that i thought it would be i have been studying him 14 years as he wrote so very much so i made the terrible mistake to think it would be relatively easy but it was much harder than i thought because when you start to write it down to account for the main things in his life for what he advocated during defended it turns out they relate to one another more deeply and more complex ways than i imagined and i came to understand him better i hope and i think it was the painful process. >> did you approach the book from a fan perspective? >> i am a scholar five '01 to write anything i cannot defend but i do admiring him very much and just to list the things that he achieved his very hard for anybody in history like can. he wrote 50 books and they're worth reading just by itself doesn't that separate terror from nearl

churchill's parents initially saw few signs of greatness in their son. he rebelled against authority even after being viciously beaten at school. he refused conventional learning. and he was always in trouble. his school reports, which you read there, indicate that he was only consistent in his inconsistency. and in a letter from lord randall to his son in august 1893 when winston was 19 years old, lord randolph wrote, my dear winston, i am rather surprised at your tone of exultation over your inclusion in the sandhurst list. there's two ways of winning an examination, one incredible, the other reverse. you have, unfortunately, chosen the latter method and appear to be much pleased with your success. the first extremely discreditable feature of your performance was missing the infantry for in that failure is demonstrated beyond reputation your slovenly happy go lucky harum-scarum style of work for which you've always been distinguished at your different schools. never have i received a really good report of your conduct in your work from any master or tu

>> well, i thought i knew a good deal about churchill. i had played fdr once with bob hoskins as churchill, and done a lot of historical reading. but when it came time to play the part, i plunged deep into research, read about him, and found out how little i had known. mainly about the whole sweep of his life. i was so fascinated by his very young years. his childhood teen years, his 20s, his 30see and they completely informed him as an old man. i clay the part between the ages of about 73 and 80. but i sort of found him in his childhood. and of course did an enormous amount of-- look digging around for audio and video and listening to that extraordinary voice. >> did you find the voice hard, john. >> well, i had a great cocon spir tor in a man named william connicker, a great dialect coach who helped me but i'm happy to say he spent just as much time with the english actors. >> very different language. >> it was an entirely different register, if you are a dialect, evolutionist and such people exist, then you chart the difference in the

you can feel the unimaginable pressure on churchill. >> churchill was obviously pretty tense. if you just feel that notch at the end there -- that he made with the ring that he wore on that hand, and he belted it like that. [ bells tolling ] >> but his voice never cracks. >> this is your victory. >> may 8, 1945, "v-e day." >> victory of the cause of freedom in every land. [ crowd cheering ] >> when derek's wartime post with churchill ends, he keeps two spare sets of the prime minister's dentures. he goes on to open his own prosthetics service. >> he was probably recognized to be the best in the country. all his clients came to him, word of mouth. >> word of mouth? >> yeah, very much so. >> [ laughs ] >> yes, very much so. >> decades later, nigel's father donates one of his sets of churchill's dentures to the royal college of surgeons. >> it was something he was very proud of, but, of course, it was a quiet donation, which suited him. >> but nigel thinks his dad deserves a more prominent place in the history books. so when derek dies, in 2007, and nigel inherits the remaining s

how did churchill feel about her? did he feel paternal, namely a sense of responsibility -- mainly a sense of responsibility because he was the prime minister? >> he felt an overwhelming sense of responsibility. as in many areas, he thought he was the only one who could do the job. charlie: and that new vest. -- t hat he knew best. >> he was the only victorian left in the upper strata of politics. this was postwar britain. britain had technically won, but the country was absolutely devastated. the monarchy was on the bubble. for george the sixth to die so suddenly, to churchill it was important that the monarchy be saved. he himself is superannuated, he becomes prime minister way too old at age 75. his primary job is to make sure that the transition goes well. even though he did not have a close relationship with elizabeth before his audiences with her, which is why the scenes are so charged and wonderful, he was enormously productive, kind of evil killer. he regards himself as her mentor. in the course of our 10 epis

charlie: how did churchill feel about her? did he feel paternal, mainly a sense of responsibility because he was the prime minister? or he was going to be the prime minister or he was a part of political world? >> he felt an overwhelming sense of responsibility. as in many areas, he thought he was the only one who could o the job. charlie: he knew best. >> he was the only victorian left in the upper strata of politics. this was postwar britain. britain had technically won, but the country was absolutely devastated. the monarchy was on the bubble. for george the sixth to die so suddenly, to churchill it was important that the monarchy be saved. >> he saw it as an opportunity for him. charlie: he himself is superannuated, he becomes prime minister way too old at age 75. his primary job is to make sure that the transition goes well. even though he did not have a close relationship with elizabeth before his audiences with her, which is why the scenes are so charged and wonderful, he was enormously protective, kind of avuncular. he

when churchill left, he left. ernst bevin, went to eden, they had a meeting shortly after the election results came back. eden said what position are you going to seek in the new government? going to seek chancellor of the secretary. eden said what for? all you do is count the money we have not gotten? and urged him to become the foreign minister instead. of course in the united states as well harry truman took over and immediately moved to get rid of most of franklin roosevelt's cabinet. the first person he targeted was secretary of state, the man he wanted in the position was james burns, in my view the single most important american in the 20th century nobody knows anything about. james burns is the only man in american history to have served on the supreme court, the house, the senate, the cabinet and the governorship. and nobody knows anything about him. in 1944, he was the guy everybody expected would be franklin roosevelt's vice president. everybody. harry truman is the guy who nominated burns -- excuse me,

churchill. chef's frightened to death of indiansns bah! should have let jennifer marry that frenchman. costing me a fortune-- rewards, posters, detectives mucking up my schedule. now she's mucking up my digestion. mmm. well, i don't believe it. usually don't find a mirage thth side of the south pass. all the women on the other wagons do all the cooking. you won't let me ride or drive, so... well, anyway, it's prairie stew. sit down, charlie. sure smells good. missssalverson gave me the recipe. of course, i added a few special ingredients of my own. well? well, it's, uh... unusual. yeah, that's it. it's unusual. it's the most unusual stew i ever ate. well, thank you. must be the herbs i found along the trail. herbs? mm-hmm, must have been herbs. looked like herbs. it's--it's fine, jenny. it's just that, well, i guess i'm not very hungry.y. me neither. must be the weather, charlie. yeah, that's it-- the weather. charlie. thank you. where you going? scientific research. what do you mean? well, they say coyotes will eat anything, right? right.

starting at 8:00 p.m., a conference on churchill's relationships with his friends and family. then we'll hear about his time in washington, d.c. and also about his mother, who was an american. that starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow here on c-span3. and friday, president obama lays a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in arlington national cemetery. you can see that live on our companion network, c-span. >>> this week on "american history tv" on c-span3. saturday night a little after 7:00 eastern, kings college london visiting professor andrew roberts discusses the role of u.s. army george c. marshal in america's world war ii victories, arguing his skills transformed the u.s. army, despite opposition from president roosevelt and british prime minister winston churchill. >> he had a highly ordered mind, a skill at delegating once he had filleted the general staff of confidence and leaving only his trusted lieutenants. this pennsylvania gentleman with beautiful manners was incorruptible, single minded, and astonishing calm considering the pressures on him. >> then at 10

think most of us when we think of winston churchill, we think of the older man sending young man into war. but no one knew better and few new as well the realities of the the terror and devastation party said to his mother, the raw comes through. he absolutely knew the disaster that war was. >> tonight on q&a, historian candace millar talks about the early military career of winston churchill in her book "hero of the empire," 'th making of winston churchille. >> he says, i want to go and i want to fight. he ends up going with a regiment to praetoria on the day it fell to the british. and he takes over the prison and he frees the men who then his fellow prisoners. he puts in the prison his former jailers and he watches as the boar flag is torn down and the union jack is foisted in its place. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. ♪ after i came up with this idea, i did research information because, and this is definitely the case with a lot of pieces that will be done for this competition, but mental illness especially. it is a complicated issue. it is not black and white. it is

now, the 33rd international churchill conference. we recently covered two full days of panels and speeches on the former british prime minister at the mayflower hotel in washington, d.c. historians discuss his contemporaries, including john anderson who served with him in the british war cabinet in world war ii and churchill's personal physician. this is about an hour and a half. >> good morning. byant to begin congratulating you for joining us at this un-churchillian hour of 9:00. he was a man of tremendous energy. i cannotel

be change winston churchill during the war, had a relationship with churchill? >> eleanor or hick? >> eleanor. >> winston churchill visited the white house during the war, had a relationship with churchill, she did she did not like churchill at all. a very funny incident, hick and eleanor often celebrated christmas together, hick couldn't stand to be in competition so they would have a private celebration. they were supposed to have it on christmas eve. hick came to the white house to celebrate and the whole celebration has been ruined because winston churchill showed up. hick was -- thought it was hilarious. she disliked the way the two of them talked about war, two little boys playing at war. she hated all that. she hated his imperialist view of the world and they argued about the spanish civil war which he said at one point, the spanish civil war, both of us would have had our heads handed to us by the republicans. they fought about things and didn't like each other much. >> that your opinion of eleanor change as you are researching the book? >> definitely. did your opinion of e

. >> winston churchill often visited. did she have a relationship with churchill? >> eleanor our hick? eleanor, yes. winston churchill often visited the white house. they eleanor have a relationship with churchill? yet she did. she did not like a turtle at all. it's a very funny incident about this because hick in eleanor often celebrate christmas together but not on the day because hick couldn't stand to be in competition with everybody else so they would have their own private celebration. they were supposed to have it on christmas eve, and hick came to the house, to the white house to celebrate and eleanor seem very annoyed and she said hick, the whole celebration has been ruined because winston churchill has shown up. at which point of course hick thought it was hilarious, you know. she thought she disliked the way the two of them come fdr and churchill talked about war. she's said they were like two little boys playing at war with their maps and the pins and everything. she hated all that. she hated his whole pure list view of the world. they argued about that

. >> churchill spoke for all history to remember. gentlemen, you will listen to the words of our great commander -- [cheering] >> a man who has proved not only his capacity to organize and regulate the movement around him , but has shown a capacity for making great nations march together. more than they ever have before. >> and so, i cans and conquered britain. san cocao, a kansan britain. a great guy who understands that watching belongs not to a president, what i people. >> i stand before federal .awmakers of our great republic the great cause of our political life in a symbol of the american heritage. >> and now watch what a country boy can do to the biggest city in the world, new york. >> watch the women. watch the young people. >> watch them flock to cheer for mister american. >> new york simply cannot do and to a kansas farmer boy keep its reputation for sophistication. that's another thing, mr. mayor, that impressed me very much. reason.he one individual, one of the war. our nasty job is done. one nasty job is finished. -- the

. >> i think most of us will we think of western churchill we think of the older man sending younger men into war. nobody knew better a few new as well the realities of war. the tear and devastation. he said to his mother after second war that you can not guilty. he absolutely new that the disaster that war was. announcer: sunday, his story and -- historian candice millard talks about the early military career of winston churchill in her book. he said, give me a regiment, i want to go and fight. he ended up going with a regiment to pretoria on the day it fell to the british. he takes over the prison and he frees the man who have been prisoners. he puts in the prison his former jailers and he watches as the flag is torn down and the union jack is wasted. q&a.ncer: sunday night on >> after interviewing presidential historians, the author created 10 commandments of presidential leadership. mr. boston discusses the commandments and give examples of presidents who excelled at each one. he is the author of "cross-examining lawyer -- cross-examining history." the denver forum hosted. >> our

churchill's relationship with the two queens that he served. of 15 books and the editor of 13, the professor is perhaps one of the few individuals who could rival proliferative see. he served as the chairman of trustees at the national portrait gallery in london and is a fellow of the british academy, the royal historical society, and the royal society for literature, among numerous other accomplishments. ininliterature among numerous o accomplishments. he was in the birthday honors for his vast services to scholarship. it is my pleasure to introduce my speaker. the only person who can tasle the subject of winston church hill and the mon narcs, professor, david. thank you so much for that exceptionally kind and generous introduction. since i spend part of my time earning my living by speaking as well as writing. i have become -- it's been fiercely competed for position. and on one occasion, i was lecturing, i was on the road with my auto biography and i was in kansas city and there was an introduction given and the chairman said, i should like

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that was a daunting dual portfolio which he initially retained in churchill's ministry in may of 1940. he was not a member of the small or. -- war cabinet. of 1940, he was made lord president of the council. that job had a seat in the war

celebrates the accomplishments of churchill up through the victory of world war ii but faults churchill for continuing to stay in office when he didn't have the stamina to prosecute the cold war properly with the ensuing result that one third of the world's people at the time wound up behind the iron curtain. similarly for martin luther king who in today's landscape we conceive of in god the terms, when bill buckley wrote his remembrance of martin luther king in april 1968 after the assassination buckley wrote a column that was tough on martin luther king, celebratory of his accomplishments in civil rights but at the same time condemnatory of and statements martin luther king had made about america at the height of the vietnam war and its role in the world that he thought were utterly inappropriate so he didn't always pull his punches even when he was discussing people lionized on the right and that speaks to his intellectual integrity. >> with the a contrarian, the sense that some figures had become too big, too overlarge, celebrated inappropriately or was it purely the sense of gettin

who buckley had gone to speak personally in 1949 is not for winston churchill. he celebrates the accomplishments of churchill up through and including the victory in world war ii but then faults churchill for continue to go stay in office when he didn't have the stamina to prosecute the cold war properly with the ensuing result that one-third of the world's people at the time wound up behind the iron curtain, similarly for martin luther king which in today's landscape we conceive of in terms. when bill buckley wrote his remembrance of martin luther king after assassination, buckley wrote a column that was tough on martin luther king, celebratory of his accomplishments in civil rights but at the same time condemn of some statements that martin luther king had maid about america at the height of vietnam war and the role in the world that he thought were utterly appropriate. he didn't always pull his punches. even when he was discussing people who are on the right and that speaks, i think, to bill's intellectual integrity. >> was this a sense that some figures have

. >> larry arnn what was sure whole with this book "churchill's trial" winston churchill and the salvation of free government? what are we going to learn? >> i spent a lot of time trying to figure out what churchill means that my goal of the book is to state that so that's what i set out to do. >> host: what did you learn? >> guest: the book was much harder to write than i thought it would be in by the time i started the book i had been studying churchill for about 40 years. it takes that long i think, he wrote so very much and i've made the authors terrible mistake of thinking it would be relatively easy compared to other things i've written. its punch harder than i thought because when you start writing it down and you start trying to give an account of the main themes in his life, things that he stood for and he advocated or defended, turns out they relate to one another more deeply and more complexly than i had imagined. i came to understand them better i hope that it was a painful process. >> host: did you approach this book from a fans perspective? >> guest: well i am a scholar so i