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...Your article on Sir Winston [Jan. 29] was most appropriate. I can't help wondering what might have been if the father of this great man had been American and his mother English. In all likelihood he would have ascended to the presidency. Britain needed him for its finest hour, that I won't dispute. In any event, it was our good fortune that he lived during our time. The thought of "President" Churchill, however, still fascinates...
...With the passing of Sir Winston, we have the first gap in our Great Society...
...Winston Spencer Churchill can hardly have seen much of government "and Parliament and forensic politics" at 23, but he moves in and out among their deviations with the case, if not the knowledge of a veteran statesman...
...expected not to know better than their elders--or, at least, to keep their knowledge to themselves--his assurance has earned him many snubs. One general will delight in his light-hearted omniscience, the next, and the next, and the next will put a subaltern in his place. But Winston Churchill cannot be snubbed. His self-confidence bobs up irresistibly, though seniority and common sense and facts themselves conspire to force it down...
...master strain in his character is the rhetorician. Platform speeches and leading articles flow from him almost against his will. At dinner he talks and you can hardly tell when he leaves off, quoting his one idol, Macaulay, and begins his other, Winston Churchill...