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Churchill and the Presidents
Churchill and the Presidents: John F. Kennedy – Grave and Urgent Times
18
Jun
2021
Churchill and the Presidents: Dwight Eisenhower, Sentiment and Politics
23
Jul
2020
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By WARREN F. KIMBALL
In wartime, Eisenhower related to Churchill as junior to senior. As President, the relationship vastly changed, but ties of sentiment were still there.
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Churchill and the Presidents: Franklin Roosevelt
24
Oct
2016
Churchill and the Presidents: Herbert Hoover
27
Aug
2015
Churchill and the Presidents: Woodrow Wilson
05
Aug
2015
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By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Woodrow Wilson was the kind of president we Americans elect from time to time, out of idealism or sentiment or wishful thinking, who proves inexperienced or unqualified—who fails, as Churchill put it, to “rise to the level of events.” Biographer Arthur Link described Wilson as “a virtuoso and a spellbinder during a time when the American people admired oratory above all other political skills.” But he was a party, not a national, leader.
Churchill and the Presidents: Warren Harding
30
Jul
2015
Churchill and the Presidents: Calvin Coolidge
22
Jul
2015
Churchill and the Presidents: William Howard Taft
17
Jul
2015
Churchill and the Presidents: William McKinley
08
Jul
2015
By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
William McKinley was the first president Churchill met and the last he covered in his History of the English-Speaking Peoples. In the 1896 election McKinley ran on the gold standard, while his populist opponent, William Jennings Bryan, declared that he would not let bankers “crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
Churchill and the Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt
01
Jul
2015
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