the 2nd world war i think 2 millions of people. during the conflict, the balance of power was held by the leaders of 3 nations. the united kingdom, the united states, and the ussr. march the 31st 1945, a british royal air force plane lands in crimea with a very important passenger, the british prime minister s wife, clementine churchill. boop, our daughter katara. yi bill preposition. she has shrimps. me. you see your, your blue bus clinical destiny this year. yes, panella dish or a clover stuff. secret service is historian explains why that unusual visit took place. a trouble at washing luggage narration in your shirt or she a funeral dirt, das cook, but he s putting up a junior enough that is key things jeremiah. unless of de la forms for michelle from your school for you to ask you who did you need your if my toilet verbal got out of the citizenship? clementine churchill became the 1st financial donor mm. the fund eventually raised a total of more than $9000000.00 pounds s
Churchillians sharing stories and planning out what inspired you about winston has been a lovely day and a half. We are more than experts on the family life of Winston Churchill. It was very exciting yesterday to hear celia and Lady Williams talking about what it was like to be a secretary. Part of the project we are doing, we plan to open the secretarys room in 2020. If you want to hear more about that, i terms of churchill and i, was trying to think of what we had in the collection. We got a gift from londonderry of a replica, its one of my favorite items in the house. I was interested yesterday to start to hear a little bit about churchills relationship with attlee, we will hear a lot more about that. We have another family of brs, we have the view ews with us. , professor ofew politics at belfast. Bew, who isjohn i have that wrong. Bew is our politics expert, and john bew is history professor. They are going to give a talk this morning, starting off with john. [applause] can everyb
Audience throughout the United States, canada, and britain. This evening,on we are looking forward to his presentation with our young Friends Group over whiskey and cigars. If you are not a member of our young Friends Group, you should consider that. This morning, this is about churchills political transformation and how it shaped the kind of leader he would become. Please welcome lee pollock. [applause] laura, as one cubs fan to another, thank you for that nice introduction. Hold on just one second. I think someone picked up my notes from here. [laughter] hold on a second. [inaudible] if anyone there we go. Like Winston Churchill, i spin the best part of my life i spent the best part of my life preparing my next and previous remarks extemporaneous remarks. I am delighted to be back here at the National World war i museum. This is my fifth visit and it just gets better and better. Years from now, you will celebrate the 100th anniversary of your collection. I trust you will have a blowo
We also found that we shared a common passion for history. Im very pleased to introduce Candice Mallard to you today. Im a longtime fan of her work. I think what distinguishes her work from the work of other popular historians is her rare ability to engender suspense, despite the readers foreknowledge of the outcome. I speak from experience. When i read her first book, the river of doubt, i spent a lot of time worrying about how Teddy Roosevelt would get out of that brazilian jungle, even though i knew he would. I was listening to the book as i was driving the washington beltway, so it was always a race to see who would get to the exit first, teddy or me. I kept hoping that james a. Garfield would somehow survive the ineptitude of his doctors, even though i knew he would. Im well into her latest book, hero of the empire, the boro war, daring escape and the making of Winston Churchill. And i can tell you im very on the edge of my seat, wondering if Winston Churchill is going to make it
Museum in kansas city, missouri. Ms. Vogt lee pollock is the executive director and trustee of the International Churchill society. As a Winston Churchill expert, he has spoken about the extraordinary life and times of the late Prime Minister to audiences throughout the United States, canada, and britain. His presentation this evening, we are looking forward to his presentation with our young Friends Group over whiskey and cigars. So, truly, if you are not a member of our young Friends Group, you should consider that, too. This morning, this is about churchills political transformation and how it shaped the kind of leader he would become during world war ii. Please welcome lee pollock. [applause] mr. Pollock laura, as one cubs fan to another, thank you for that very nice introduction. Hold on just one second. I think someone picked up my notes from here. [laughter] mr. Pollock hold on a second. [inaudible] mr. Pollock if anyone there we go. Like Winston Churchill, i have spent the best