what made you think you could write another book on winston churchill? ms. millard: it is audacious, isn't it? they say there are 12,000 books written about him, more than anyone but napoleon and jesus. police me, it felt very daunting i have been interested in winston churchill for a long time, he is absolutely fascinating. not a perfect man by any means but is extraordinary. about 25 years ago i heard this story that when he was a young man he was captured in south africa and was a pow and escaped and it just stayed with me throughout all of these years because it stunned me. i cannot believe i did not know the story and that this had happened. manuscriptned in the for my second book, i started to think about it more and i thought, "another unknown aspect is the boer war itself." it was really the beginning of modern warfare. i knew i had a larger palette to work with and it is such an incredible adventure story and it is really the formation of a man we know as winston churchill. mr. lamb: getting back to the boer war in a moment, but want to bring folks

but being winston churchill, they are not sort of simple, quiet plans. his plans were, ok, we're going to take over this prison, and then we are going to take over this prison were the soldiers are, and then we're going to take over the tour area and capture the president and end the war, and nobody would listen to him. he heard these two guys, his friend who had been a commander of the armored train, and another guy who was very savvy. he spoke zulu and afrikaans, and he heard them plotting and -- a very simple escape. just making it over -- there were newly electric lights. there was one corner of the wall that was dark and they knew that if you timed it correctly, you could get over the wall and churchill tells them that he wanted in on the plan and neither of them want to take him. they know that he is too talkative, too famous, and he is not strong enough. he is going to be a burden the whole way, but holden feels guilty and says, look, we do not want you to come but i will leave it up to you and churchill says, i am coming and he actually makes it

what made the winston churchill we all know? how did he become one of the most powerful and effective leaders mankind has ever produced? that an important part of the answer lies in an exceptional series of events that took place in 1899, when young winston churchill went to the boer war in south africa. churchill did not plan this story and he could not have predicted it. but in every sense, he prepared for it. he understood the significance. he seized control of it. he risked everything to succeed in it. and he turned that opportunity into a life-changing moment that was directly responsible for his path cap to power -- later to power. there is a saying that luck is opportunity meets -- a a combustible mixture of talent and resourcefulness that defined him from his earliest years. it transform this young man into a world famous hero, setting him firmly on a path to greatness, and in doing so, it transformed the world we live in today. to me, one of the most striking aspects of churchill's personality, one that sets him apart f

winston churchill is surely a good example of that. at the end of this month i will be stepping down as the center's full-time executive director. as laurence will tell you i will be succeeded by a very talented individual and i couldn't be more pleased about the chosen candidate. i'm also delighted that i'll remain on the board of trustees and as an adviser and vigorously support all of the international churchill society's activities. i will continue speaking and writing about churchill when the opportunity arises, and if it's a slow news day perhaps i can get "the wall street journal" to let me write another op-ed. [ applause ] you all know the story when churchill was once asked about retiring, his response was i leave when the pub closes. but the metaphorical churchill pub always remains open as long as, in the words of president kennedy, courage and faith and process for freedom are indestructible. so you'll find in the churchill pub, perhaps with the johnnie walker in hand. come say hello and i will that will have a great conver

to lecture winston churchill. and before the united states entered the second world war on the appropriate lessons of history. in my view and a shocking case. it's the real threat to the stability in asia. he had begun to see america as the problem. he goes to london and banks with churchill and help us and join with us but the cabinet feared they might trigger a war in asia and if they did it would likely become a nuclear word the chinese or the russians. something the british were dead set against. so in ahill refused to support eisenhower's plan into china. any intervention would trigger a war. much wider wag. for church hihill partition vietnam. some historians believe this act saved off military intervention by the united states in vietnam in 1954. well, these three disputes between eisenhower and church hill did not, by any means lesson, reflect the respect between the two leaders, but they do reflect, ladies and gentlemen, the deeper differences between the two nations at mid century. britain was struggling

what made the winston churchill we all know? how did he become one of the most powerful and effective leaders mankind has ever produced? i believe that an important part of the answer lies in an exceptional series of events, which took place in 1899 when young winston churchill went to the bora war in south africa. chim didn't play on this story, and he couldn't have predicted it. but in every sense, he prepared for it, he understood its significance, he seized control of it. he risked everything to succeed in it, and he turned that opportunity into a life-changing moment that was directly responsible for his later path to power. there is a saying that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, and that is exactly what happened here. churchill was in africa for only a matter of months. but what happened there put the spark to the combustible mixture of intelligence, ambition, courage, and resourcefulness that defined him from his earliest years. it transformed this young man into a world famous hero, setting him fi

what made the winston churchill we all know? how did he become one of the most powerful and effective leaders mankind has ever produced? i believe that an important part of the answer lies in an exceptional series of events, which took place in 1899 when young winston churchill went to the bora war in south africa. chim didn't play on this story, and he couldn't have predicted it. but in every sense, he prepared for it, he understood its significance, he seized control of it. he risked everything to succeed in it, and he turned that opportunity into a life-changing moment that was directly responsible for his later path to power. there is a saying that luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity, and that is exactly what happened here. churchill was in africa for only a matter of months. but what happened there put the spark to the combustible mixture of intelligence, ambition, courage, and resourcefulness that defined him from his earliest years. it transformed this young man into a world famous hero, setting him fi

there are operational regions for that, but it did affect winston churchill. it is something magnificent about that, to be able to cry that areenemies wounded and as well as your own, that shows universal sentiment that was mentioned yesterday about the way in which he was say in his speech about -- about how he would he hopefully fighting in the field, a controversial thing to say. it is not the kind of thing usually hear during wars, but nonetheless, it shows that he ,ad the capacity for largeness cryptic statements, and that is the reason why i think he cried over the deaths in dresden. the question are we beasts? it is a good one to ask, but i do not believe that we were. i think the key thing was that all of those men, harris included, was desperate to end the second world war as soon as possible and churchill was being advised that their way to do this was to destroy german capacity to produce. when you look at the graph, and i have got one of these in my up until goes up and the firebombing at hamburg and other cities in 1943, and then it cuts off, and

thanks for all you have done to preserve the legacy of winston churchill. i trust we can trust in the future and together we can move forward into broad, sun lit up lands. thank you very much. >> thank you, michael, ladies and gentlemen, we will have a quick turnaround and go to our first panel. i invite our panelists up and i will turn over the microphone to professor dane kennedy of george washington university wlo will be the moderator for churchill and the president. >> more of binston churchill wednesday evening here on c-span3. starting at 8:00 eastern, a kfrksen with the former british prime minister's relationship with friends and family and his time in washington, d.c., and also his mother who was an american. that starts at 8:00 p.m. here tomorrow on c-span3. and friday is veterans day a the 11:00 a.m. eastern, president obama lays a wreeth at the tomb of the unknown soldier at arlington national cemetery.

to lecture winston churchill. whose country fought hitler's for two years before the united states entered the second world was a shocking act of bad taste. church hill did not agree that china was the real threat to stability and asia. even joined with us, but the cabinet feared the americans may trigger a war in asia. something that the british were dead set against. momentry significant church hill refused to support his plan. any american military beervention, he feels would a better war. the americans were not quite ready. the british blocked the american plan for coalition. these three disputes did not lessen the affection of respects between the two leaders. reflect the deeper differences between the two nations at mid century. america was just entering an era of global power. it was struggling to adapt to a different role. church hill and eisenhower met at crossroads in the early 1950's. a when america's anticommunist sentiment was at its most intent. winston gently tried to constrain and buffer american h

winston churchill is surely good -- a good example of that. i will be stepping down as the center full-time director at the end of this month. succeeded by a very talented individual, and i could not be more pleased about the chosen candidates. i am also delighted i will remain on the board of trustees and as an advisor and vigorously all of the churchill society's activities. i will continue speaking when the opportunity arises, and if it is a slow news day, perhaps i can get the "wall street journal" to let me write another op-ed. you all know the story when churchill was once asked about retiring, his response was, "i closes." the pub but the metaphorical churchill called always remains open as long as, in the words of president kennedy, courage and faith and the best for freedom are indispensable, so you will find me in that, perhaps with a johnnie walker in hand. come say hello and that we will have a great conversation, for there is nothing more fun than being a churchillian in the company of other churchillian's s. churchillian [applaus

winston churchill is surely a good example of that. at the end of this month i will be stepping down as the center's full-time executive director. as laurence will tell you i will be succeeded by a very talented individual and i couldn't be more pleased about the chosen candidate. i'm also delighted that i'll remain on the board of trustees and as an adviser and vigorously support all of the international churchill society's activities. i will continue speaking and writing about churchill when the opportunity arises, and if it's a slow news day perhaps i can get "the wall street journal" to let me write another op-ed. [ applause ] you all know the story when churchill was once asked about retiring, his response was i leave when the pub closes. but the metaphorical churchill pub always remains open as long as, in the words of president kennedy, courage and faith and process for freedom are indestructible. so you'll find in the churchill pub, perhaps with the johnnie walker in hand. come say hello and i will that will have a great conver

to lecture winston churchill. and before the united states entered the second world war on the appropriate lessons of history. in my view and a shocking case. it's the real threat to the stability in asia. he had begun to see america as the problem. he goes to london and banks with churchill and help us and join with us but the cabinet feared they might trigger a war in asia and if they did it would likely become a nuclear word the chinese or the russians. something the british were dead set against. so in ahill refused to support eisenhower's plan into china. any intervention would trigger a war. much wider wag. for church hihill partition vietnam. some historians believe this act saved off military intervention by the united states in vietnam in 1954. well, these three disputes between eisenhower and church hill did not, by any means lesson, reflect the respect between the two leaders, but they do reflect, ladies and gentlemen, the deeper differences between the two nations at mid century. britain was struggling

now even about winston churchill, we might ask. david locke has managed not only to say new things but to add great detail and provide a fascinating expedition of churchill's finances, a topic that you know and as david demonstrates that it had its peaks and indeed its troughs, much like his own political career. is thorough and engaging and offers new churchillian epithets. he was seeking new funds for yet another expenditure and lamenting, had i not been so foolish as to pay a lot of bills, i should've had the money available right now. [laughter] david locke is well qualified to write on this topic. a former member of the london stock exchange, a fellow of the chartered securities institute and with a career in private , banking. now, in semi retirement, is theld of finance loss world of churchill's gain. [applause] mr. locke thank you to the : churchill society. thank you to the international churchill society as i must now call it again, for inviting me here this afternoon. there has been a lot of talk about this being the fin

i have one other link with winston churchill. he was the third chairman of the english speaking union, and i was the ninth, which means that we share a board. at dartmouth house. the great pride to me. and people now say sometimes, his wit was a bit contrived and reversed. -- rehearsed. let me tell you one little story. 37 child street was the headquarters of the english speaking union and he had an apartment as chairman. sadly doesn't have that way today. he had an apartment as right in the heart of mayfair, living in an environment where he was easily satisfied with the very best and couldn't necessarily afford it. there was a hostess at number 16 and she invited him from time to time to dinner because he was a good raconteur. this evening he goes across, rings the bell and the butler comes to the door and is swept aside by the hostess and she looks winston in the face and says, winston, i'm very, very sorry but i have invited too many men to tonight's dinner. winston is crestfallen. already thinking of the dinner that awaits h

of winston 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

for many years, he has had a great interest in winston churchill. as someone who enjoys all of churchill's books and all the books about i'm delighted to introduce chris 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 disappe

on january 14, 1952, winston ch churchill spoke at a dinner in ottawa on king. i made a life-long friendship with him. and i shared my grief with all canada and indeed the free world. at his death, after so many years of the faithful and skillful service to the grate clauses which we uphold today. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you for your kind introduction. i think my mother would have been delighted. but on the other hand, my father would have been amazed. as you might imagine, there's a lot of ground to be covered here and you'll find that i will not always read the text on the slides. so i ask you to read them as you listen to my additional comments with your active listening and talent. we've got the slides up? we going or not? go ahead, sorry. >> thank you, john. in some 50 years this year since warren published his diary and created an uproar. yet his son tried do something about it, though he died a couple years ago, published his father's book in two volumes. in 2003 his volumes 1940, years 1940, 1945, and in 2006, covering the years 1945 to 1920. wi

ronald reagan, margaret thatcher and winston churchill. all done by hillsdale a loan. >> guest: one of them is not good one of them is done by our senior scope are here at the college. one of his students and one is done by bruce wolf. he's doing redrick douglas of course right now. the photograph on frederick douglass is visiting card if he gave you his card, the photograph was taken in not building standing right over there. >> host: isn't the profile picture? >> guest: no, he said in a chair with his legs crossed. he looks like a million bucks. a striking man with strong features. i hunted down the man who own day. it was sent money. it was moral obligation. they died waiting for the war and her frederick douglass taught on one of the occasions at the college. did she think that photograph belongs here? the man send it to me. he is a photographer for the maryland historical society. still in the back, where you are talking about for modern people, they were all heavily admired here or had a connection. the middle our founders put jeffer

he'll speak on king and churchill, the sfbts his superb 2012 book "winston churchill and mckenzie king, so similar, so different." our third and final speaker, dr. john mather is a british import and scotsman no less, i should add, who served his adopted country the united states in the u.s. army for 30 years. he's distinguished physician whose been elected to several medical organizations including the royal society of medicine in the united kingdom. he's a medical pathographer and biographer and is an acknowledged expert on the medical issues that affected winston churchill. he will speak on a gentleman who was a diarist and a physician, lord morin who carried -- coordinated the care for churchill in the medical realm for the last 25 years of churchill's life. each of our speakers today will speak for about 25 minutes which will leave us time at the end for about 25 minutes worth of q&a. let's go to our first speaker. [ applause ] >> good morning. it is an un-churchillian hour. thank you, ted, for the introduction. thank you for giving me this platform. it's wonderful. it's a real ho

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 so multi-fast that i had to research to get a base knowledge of what i wanted to talk about in this piece. and obviously there was a lot of -- it is so complicated that i cannot talk about it in 5-7 minutes. pharmaceuticals is a really broad topic. would be nice to have a focal point i wanted to focus on. interviewing my parents, before i got clips from the internet, before i star

ofdays after the birth winston churchill. height and in in the color of their eyes. that similarity did not attend to their scholarly achievements. whereas churchill was an indifferent scholar. brilliant student with degrees from the university of toronto and harvard. he was given by canada's prime minister jens is the king's .uture was in canada he occupied the senior civil service persistent -- physician .hen churchill arrived to speak on his next was. they met, but it was not a success. king bounded churchill drinking in thene at 11:00 morning. it was not impressed. he received great success in solving labor issues. this came to the attention of teddy roosevelt. increase of numbers of the japanese and in and sit -- united states. the results of the meeting was a request that can intercede with the british government, which had a friendly relationship with the japanese government. to put pressure on japan. in that regard. king sale to england. reducedlt was a much flow of immigrants. his diary showed that his opinion of churchill had much improved. he wrote, "one c

and matt smith who plays prince philip and john lit-- lithgow who plays winston churchill. >> i think she says that she has grown into the role, she never had an apprenticeship or anyone to guide her aside from churn il, really. >> even though he didn't have a close relationship with elizabeth before, his audience is with her, which is why the scenes are so charged and wonderful. he's enormously protective, kind of, avu nku lar. he regards himself as her mentor. >> that is what makings is too interesting, is the conflict, particularly for philip, from d in the relationship. homecant and then his, i don't know, his sort of love for her and his desire, i think, to sort of be man of the house. >> rose: a look at the economic debate in the campaign and a new netflix series about queen elizabeth 2-7bd when we continue. >> funding for charl c.e.o. rose is provided by the >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> larry kudlow is here, is he cnbc

the problem is, for an american, every englishman imitates winston churchill. so you feel like you have a lot of competition. but at a certain point, you all about the site. you are trying to capture something. what is it? stephen: we are trying to capture historical circumstances in a genetic situation. we do a huge amount of research. we talk about making sure we know what exactly happened for authenticity. charlie: so that the dialogue is not unreasonable. >> well-- [indiscernible] [laughter] ofrlie: you never said any this. >> it is an impersonation show. again, going back to voice, had we done the dialect they spoke thehe period, we may get rules to it, but you are not smoking in the -- you are not speaking in the extreme dialect. claire: there isn't that much. it doesn't really exist in that period of time. what did you look at in those early years, assuming the queen chip? do you see the qualities that she has to date present -- has today present there? claire: it is tricky, isn't it? you are sort of desperate in a way. i don't know. i think she says her

as you know, winston churchill, to everybody's great surprise, lost that election. so halfway through the potsdam conference, churchill left office and clement aptly replaced him. a person for which churchill had very little good to say. he had he was a sheep in sheep's clothing. also of course i don't have to remind anybody, the american presidency had just changed from the towering figure of franklin roosevelt to the man from missouri, harry truman. there is a one case study, a wonderful laboratory that we can do here. that's what i was interested in. first, i want to take you back to 1945. this is the gathering of the potsdam conference here. and the first thing i would like to note is how few people are in this room. this is in sharp contrast and intentional contrast to the paris peace conference which was held in a major european capital for signing peace treaties and had thousands of people. potsdam is intentionally held in this room so only a small number of people can be there. and that's important. the other thing i want to stress is what berlin looked like

army despite opposition from president roosevelt and winston churchill. the new york historical society hosted this event. it is just over 50 minutes. >> we are so very pleased to welcome back andrew roberts, the distinguished fellow at the new york historical society. professor roberts is a fellow of the royal historical society in london and a recipient of the 2016 bradley prize. he serves as a visiting professor at king's college london. in 2012, he was awarded the william penn prize. in 2007, he delivered the prestigious white house lecture. for his book, he was the 2014 winner of the los angeles times biography prize. he is the author and editor of 12 books and he is now writing a biography of winston churchill. before i invite andrew roberts to the stage, i would like to ask you to make sure anything that makes a noise like a cell phone is switched off. please join me in welcoming andrew roberts to the stage. [applause] andrew roberts: it is a great honor to be invited to address you again this evening. thank you very much, louise, for those very ki

he's now writing a biography of winston churchill. before i invite andrew roberts to the stage, i would like to ask you if anything that makes a noise like a cell phone is switched off. please join me in welcoming andrew roberts to the stage. [applause] andrew: it is a great honor to be invited to address you again this evening. thank you very much, louise, for those very kind words. i too have read lu lemon's book on churchill and roosevelt. it is a fantastically impressive work. beautifully written. as somebody who's writing a biography of churchill, it really was incredibly irritating to see all this new information which has forced me to go to archives i had not factored in at all. [laughter] there we are. i recommended highly to you. i'd like to take you back to tuesday the 16th of december, 1947, to dinner party that winston churchill's wife london forgave in george c. marshall. it was over the soviet government's demands for facilitating reparations against germany. basically, the russians have plantd heavy industrial back to r

king george vi has just died and winston churchill delivers his last great public broadcast, announcing that news and, of course, a cleaning george the sixth successive. in the past six weeks churchill said the king walked with the death but when death came, it came as a friend, an acquaintance whom he recognized and did not fear. and after a long days sweet goodnight to those who love them best, he fell asleep as every man or woman who fears god and nothing else in the world may hope to do. and he ended as follows. i whose youth was not shared and i passed unchallenged drink will blow of the victorian era may well feel and invoking once more the prayer and in some, god save the queen. there was the most eloquently devoted in its attitude towards the british monarchy as epitomized in his late majesty's george the sixth and her new majesty when elizabeth ii. indeed, according to -- winston was the only surviving believer in the divine right of kings and he took great pride and delight, mrs. clementines words, anything monarchical number one. who valued tradition, form and ceremony. churc

winston left the house and of course winston churchill's private secretary of the day, recorded of that occasion winston left the house viably affected. i heard him say to alicia, this is heart breaking for me. visiting an air raid shelter after the first big raid of the blitz on the 8th of september 1940. churchill in the words after letter from the military second to the war cabinets broke down completely at his welcome. you see, he cares. he really cares, a woman called out. he's crying. f two months later, another mp and to lord halifax noted at nefl chamberlain's funeral, winston had the decency to cry when he stood by the calfin. one of those present, american an bas ambassador wrote in his memo, this was hard for churchill to not be overcome with emotion. we had two lovely films after dinner. waun called squot escape "and the other was a comedy called "quiet wedding." also several short reels from the ministry.other was a comedyt wedding." also several short reels from the ministry.was a comedy calle wedding." also several short reels from the ministry.other was a comedyt wedding

churchill in her book "hero of the empire. [ daring escape and the making of winston churchill." >> and he says give me a regiment. i want to go and fight. he ends up going with a regiment on the day that pretoria fell to the british and takes over the prison and he frees the men who have been his fellow prisoners. he puts in the prison his former jailers and watches as the bore flag is torn down and union jack is hoisted in its place. >> on c-span's q & a sunday 8:00 pm eastern. >>> as nation elects a new president on tuesday, will america have its first foreign-born first lady since louisa adams or firormer presidt as first gentleman? first ladies gives readers a look into the personal lives and impact of every first lady in american history. first ladies is a companion to c-span's well regarded biography series and features interviews with the nation's leading first ladies historians. each chapter also offers brief biographies of 45 presidential spouses and archival photos of their lives. first ladies is now available at your favorite bookseller and also as an e-book. >> up next,

night, talking about of early military career winston churchill. he wrote of the empire. said, give me a regimen. up going to pretoria on the date it falls to the perdition. men who have been his fellow prisoners. puts them in prison. watches as the lower flag is torn down. and the union jack is twisted in its place. on q&a. >> donald trump held a campaign rally. appealing thet affordable care act. >> ♪ i am proud to be an american i won't forget the men who died i will gladly stand up next to you and defend her there is no doubt i love this land mr. trump:he usa ♪ thank you, everybody. thank you. wow. [chanting "usa"] mr. trump: these crowds are terrific. thank you very much. in six days we are going to win the great state of florida. and we are going to win back the white house. that will happen. but you have to get out there, you have to vote. you don't want to blow it. we have worked very hard, all of us. it is very historic what is happening. i would like to begin today by saying thank you to all of you for joining me. this has been an incredible journey and we h

announcer: he knew the disaster historian talks about the early military career of winston churchill in her book " hero of the empire." >> he says, give me a regiment, i want to fight. he ends up going with a regiment on the day that it fell to the british, and he takes over the the man whoe frees had been his fellow prisoners. he puts in the prison his former jailers, and he watches as the boer flag is torn down and the union flag is wasted in its place. announcer: sunday at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. each week, american history tv is railamerica brings you archival films that provide context for today's public affairs issues. as we look back to 1966 campaign for governor of california, incumbent democrat cap brown was challenged by republican ronald reagan. the gas electric company into unions representing pg&e employees hosted forums of each candidate. we begin with mr. brown's appearance on november 2, 1996 at the pg&e auditorium in san francisco. he argued the case for reelection answer questions from employees. comes does us courtesy of pacific gas & electric and the hoover

painting is something winston churchill did, and 43 thought, i'll give it a shot. turns out he's actually very, very good, so he continues to serve in lots of different ways. so his legacy, while unknown to all of us because we won't live long enough to see it, i think he is assured of being a very good man and a wonderful president. >> what is your relationship todaysome. b >> we're very friendly. he's great.ha i actually do some work with the barbara bush literacy foundation. it's amazing. they have, like, a 98% success rate for the work that they do. and i recently saw him at one of those events, and we're buddiesf >> ms. perino, prior to the invasion of iraq for many months i remember george bush on television talking about we don't want the smoking gun to be in the form of a mushroom cloud and weapons of mass destruction. that turned out to be false information. do you think that information is the product of an intelligence community that doesn't know what it's doing, or do you think the dissemination of false information prior to the invasion, the unprovoked

fish's dental patients is winston churchill. a backbencher in parliament, churchill issues dire warnings about the growing threat of adolf hitler and nazi germany. >> [ shouting in german ] [ crowd cheering ] >> now they are rearming with the utmost speed, and ready to their hands is this new lamentable weapon of the air. >> from the air, hitler's luftwaffe rains down terror on london in the fall of 1940. with the blitz as a backdrop, derek marries his bride, dorothy. >> they went on a honeymoon, they said, on a train with the bombs falling all around them. >> for 76 consecutive days, london is bombed day and night. in the middle of it all, derek cudlipp gets the assignment of a lifetime. >> churchill said to my father, "you're not going anywhere. you're staying here with me." >> that's next. >> but first, our "strange inheritance" quiz question. the answer when we return. >> it's "c." he called it "the black dog." churchill also had periods of manic high energy. some believe he was a manic-depressive. [ bombs whistling ] >> in

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 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 guest is a big-time texas attorney. a major source in the legal community. he wrote two books on baseball, really wonderful books. he came to us to speak about one of those books and has been here in the past. he then wrote a book about james baker, a significant book. his new book is about leadership, and leadership at the presidential level.

churchill whom buckley had gone to see speak personally in 1949 is not hagiographic for winston churchill, he 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 som

churchill and historian paul johnson's comprehensive history of the jewish faith. finally, hugh hewitt has on his bookshelf a book about the world war ii spy and mark levin's liberty amendments which explains 11 ways to restore the american republic to the framers vision. the full list of book recommendations is available at hugh hewitt.com. >> i think the trend has been in the wrong direction on both sides. congress has not been assuming its responsibilities, which has forced at least this president's to do more things by executive order. there is no question that they should have come together and pass immigration reform legislation. [applause]. >> they were not that far apart and yet this president and congress would not sit down and talk it through. so, in the book i emphasize-- it does not take-- to change this is those not take but one thing, one person that is willing to be a leader and step up whether it's a congressman or senator paul ryan has the potential to do that kind of thing as speaker. i have a lot of faith in him. or, a president to say i-- i work

is not for winston churchill. he celebrates the accomplishments up to and including the victory in world war ii but then faults churchill for continuing to stay in office when he didn't have the stamina to prosecute the cold war properly with the result of one third of the world's people behind the times. similarly for martin luther king who in today's landscape, we conceive of when bill buckley wrote his remembrance in 1968 in the assassination buckley wrote a column that was tough on martin luther king and celebratory of the accomplishments and civi civil s abut at the same time, condemned the statements he made about america at the height of the vietnam war and that he thought were utterly inappropriate. so he didn't always pull the punches even when he was discussing people that were lionized on the right and that speaks to the intellectual integrity. >> was there just th a sense tht some figures have become to big and was it purely the sense that i must get this record right. >> the theme in the book is under

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 10:00, the 1921 silent film created by the u.s. army signal corps of the ceremony honoring the unknown soldier of world war i, documenting the journey of the soldier's remains and its procession through washington, d.c. to arlington. >> the streets of washington were lined with thousands of folks who waited for the casket to be removed and brought by the honor guard down pennsylvania avenue, and then across the bridge into virginia. i think what i read is one of the largest turnouts for any parade in the city. >> sunday evening at 6:00 eastern on american artifacts. >> it's a beautiful building and from the moment it opened, it was already too small for what it was about to face. constructed to

it is reputedly through clara and winston the other family members believed this that churchill thought he was descended from iro coy indians allowing him to respond to president roosevelt's account of how his family had arrived from europe with the reply, my relatives were there to greet you. in fact, clara, who was brought up by her aunts, the aunts were nicknamed sitting bull and hatchet. whether or not churchill had native american ancestries, he certainly had strong north american pedigree with ancestors who could trace back to the earlier settlements and who would subsequently fight along washington in the war of independence. it is true that jennie was related albeit distantly through her mother to george washington. leonard and clara had four daughters and one of whom sadly died at the age of 8. jennie, their second daughter, was born on the 9th of january, 1854 at 426 henry street in the cobble hill district of brooklyn, and we visited the house on sunday, and it's a very beautiful area. it was believed that jennie was born at 426 henry street, but the difficulty was with the h

. >> reporter: british prime minister winston churchill, even president lincoln, seeing president lincoln, staying in the lincoln bedroom. up the street, lies an equally haunted building, the u.s. capitol. once used as a hospital and barracks in the civil war, ghosts remain. there are myths about ghost of like right here, where a dying congressman's bloodstained these stairs. and he continues to haunt them. the congressman was shot after a duel of sorts, humored to be searchling for his revenge. and behind this wall, a fight broke out during construction, and a man was sealed up inside. between the myths and the sightings, one thing is certain, d.c. is a spooky place. and the living politicians have nothing to do serena marshal, abc news, washington. >> i was at the white house on friday. and saw the abraham lincoln guy, dressed up there. why is he here? >> did you challenge him to a duel? you're not very good at this. >> clearly ishgs would have lost. >> that's the news for this half >>> this morning on "world news now," pressure is mounting on the director of the fbi. >> while james com

the winston churchill -- that's going back up. that bust is going back up right where it was supposed to be. i don't want you to worry what do you think of john lithgow? he's like 6'4" -- >> he played him well. >> i do. >> talking about "the crown" on netfl netflix. he was outstanding. >> but to turn himself into winston churchill, that's like me turning myself into you, that's impossible. >> you've done it before. you've done impersonations of my vote very well. >> i haven't heard it. >> twitter. >> any way -- >> the s&p getting close to an all-time high. that will be interesting. yesterday the market looked like it would be in some type of selling mode as it does this morning. but it's way too early to tell. the dow ended up, as you saw yesterday, with a decent gain. the nasdaq finally snapped back. we have sam zell, the -- i've been following this guy's year for -- i won't say for how long. it's older than a lot of our anchors. like 30 years. the grave dancer. when i was a stockbroker i used to buy some of the companies he was