me tonight. that s our show. over to lawrence o donnell with the last word. good evening. good evening alex. glen kirshner joins us. we will hear about that. front row seat to bannon s departure for the big house. exactly. i m eager to hear the color. i am, too. thanks alex. have a good show. thank you. he wasn t the most important person there. the president of the united states is usually the most important person in the room or the most important person in the stadium. or the most important person wherever the president is. not today. joe biden knew that the 200d- day veterans who surrounded him today on the coast of france were the most important people there. they were the most important people there 80 years ago and they were the most important people there today. the men who fought here became heros. every one of them knew the probability of dying was real but they did it anyway. they knew beyond any doubt there are things that are worth fighting and
churchill, the most stubborn and courageous prime minister in history backed down realizing that he couldn t risk the king s life on that warship that day. so winston churchill and the king of england at the president of the united states had to stay at their posts and wait. wait for the most important news they would ever hear in their lives. before general eisenhower gave the order to go, he was warned by his top expert on the airborne landing of paratroopers that it was going to be a disaster. that almost all of the paratroopers who would be the very first americans to land.
greatest most complicated operation ever. winston churchill wanted to be there. prime minister churchill said he wanted to board a navy ship to get a close up view of the allied props hitting the beach. eisenhower told churchill they could not take that risk. churchill told an exasperated eisenhower he would board a navy ship and there was nothing the american general could do to stop him. and that was true. eisenhower wouldn t stop churchill from boarding a british navy ship but the king of england could. when king george heard he was going to get on the ship, the king wanted to be on the ship too. and then, prime minister
arms and other material. one side of it is human courage. like churchill or perhaps zelenskyy. the other side is economic power, finding ways to convert economic power into military power. finding clever ways to convert your manufacturing into war production. seeing that it is a long term process and starting right away. what happened in operation overlord, operation neptune, the landing on d-day has to do with an enormous amount of application of economic power, and planning and administrative skill. that we needed to move
there. they were the most important people there 80 years ago and they were the most important people there today. the men who fought here became heros. every one of them knew the probability of dying was real but they did it anyway. they knew beyond any doubt there are things that are worth fighting and dying for. the world had never seen anything like the d-day invasion of the northern coast of france along the english channel. the world has never seen anything like it since. churchill called it the