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Churchill and the Presidents: Warren Harding
30
Jul
2015
“There Is No Doubt”
28
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.”
Winston Churchill’s Great Contemporaries: Alan Turing
08
Jul
2015
4
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Since the early 1990s it has been stated and endlessly repeated that Winston Churchill said Alan Turing OBE FRS (1912-1954) “made the single biggest contribution to Allied victory in the war against Nazi Germany.” Turing’s contribution was indeed great, but there is no record of Churchill having issued such a singular encomium.
Churchill on the 4th of July
04
Jul
2015
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
"I move that the following resolution be cabled from the meeting as a greeting to the President and people of the United States of America: This meeting of the Anglo-Saxon Fellowship assembled in London on the 4th of July, 1918, send to the President and people of the United States their heartfelt greetings on the 142nd anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence. They rejoice that the love of liberty and justice on which the American nation was founded should in the present time of trial have united the whole English-speaking family in a brotherhood of arms."
Churchill’s Character: Berlin, 1945 – “In Victory, Magnanimity”
01
Jul
2015
Churchill’s Character: The Common Touch
01
Jul
2015
2
Churchill and the Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt
01
Jul
2015
2
Anarchism and Fire: What We Can Learn from Sidney Street
05
Jun
2015
Omdurman: The Fallen Foe – An Illustration of Churchill’s Lifelong Magnanimity
22
May
2015