Barack Obama removed the bust of Churchill from the oval office upon his election victory. This gained him a good deal of hostile commentary. Donald Trump restored the Churchill bust in 2016. Now we have Joe Biden removing the Churchill bust again.
Churchill was the man who did more than anyone else to win World War II. First he kept Britain in the fight. Had Churchill not been Prime Minister it is very likely that Britain would have made a deal with Hitler. Hitler offered such a deal, and it wasn’t totally unattractive. Churchill refused to have anything to do with Hitler’s deal and instead inspired British resistance to Hitler.
Churchill convinced Franklin Roosevelt to do Operation Torch, the North African landings. Torch resulted in an allied victory over the Germans nearly as big and the Russian victory at Stalingrad a few months before. Churchill traveled to Moscow and negotiated with Joseph Stalin. Churchill was instrumental in setting up the United Nations and NATO. President John F. Kennedy bestowed honorary US citizenship upon Churchill. The US Navy named a vessel after Churchill. Churchill wrote a six volume history of World War II which was widely read in both Britain and America.
It has been 75 years since World War II and memories have faded. But I still admire Churchill. Without Churchill Hitler might have won World War II. We might still be coping with a Nazi government ruling all of Europe.
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