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...list, we look back at the 1940s, when every day seemed to prove that humankind was capable of incredible achievement and endless horror. There were a multitude of unforgettable dates during the six years of World War II. On May 10, 1940, the British put a controversial hawk named Winston Churchill in power. The new Prime Minister's first bold decision was to order a retreat, organizing the nine-day evacuation of 340,000 British and French troops at Dunkirk that began on May 27. He then rallied his country, vowing England would never surrender...
...connection between the first and second reasons for attacking Iraq--a connection related to self-interest: if Saddam can do terrible things to his own citizens, then he is capable of anything, which is all the more reason he is a threat to the U.S. Republican pollster David Winston describes what he hears from focus-group members in these terms: "He's an evil guy who's going to do bad things, and we know...
...dangers that Saddam poses. Dietz's husband Richard, for one, is convinced that Bush knows a lot more than he's letting on publicly. "He is keeping a lot from us to protect us," he says. "If he says there's something there, I'm behind the President." Winston says Bush has become a kind of touchstone of people's faith. "People may not always agree with him, but they trust him," he says. Which is why the President has staked so much of the rationale for war on his own credibility and why many Americans will continue...
...able to meet Bill Clinton he felt “a certain sense of inspiration—“He presented himself as someone real,” he says. About his mother’s secretarial assistance, he reminds an avid history student that Winston Churchill, Nelson Rockefeller and Woodrow Wilson, among other luminaries, all had secretaries. And though his mother is no longer his secretary, she is still supportive. “I could be a poet laureate or president of the United States. She just wants me to pick something and push as hard...
...case such an elusive term that it can only cause mischief in human affairs and has a way of evaporating--or turning into something else as time passes. Toward the end of World War I, when labor unions threatened strikes in England, Minister of Munitions Winston Churchill sternly blamed "evil and subterranean influences," meaning, he said, "pacifism, defeatism and Bolshevism." Of course, the real evils of World War I, which slaughtered an entire generation of Europe's young men, were obdurate military stupidity, the effectiveness of newly industrialized war and a monstrous official indifference to the value of human life...