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Cohen said successful wartime leaders like Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill maintained close day-to-day supervision over the military, contrary to conventional wisdom that suggests the fighting should be left to military professionals...
...with the late 18th century--the Napoleonic wars and the Romantic era are about changing notions of liberty and nature; the Victorian era, about emerging concepts of gender and family life; colonialism, about the hubris of liberal humanism. The last hour neatly encapsulates the entire 20th century by comparing Winston Churchill and George Orwell and the very different ways the aristocrat and the socialist championed freedom...
McCullough ended his speech by quoting Winston Churchill that, “We haven’t come this far because we’re made of sugar candy...
...Room. On the White House ground floor--dim, guarded, with no carpets that could tangle the wheels of F.D.R.'s wheelchair--the Map Room had been the trophy room, a small area for official gifts to the First Couple. Roosevelt had ordered the secure chamber after admiring Winston Churchill's portable map ensemble, brought to the White House when he first visited, just after Pearl Harbor. The room would become the haven for Roosevelt and Churchill and key aides throughout the four war years, a repository of information and a place where policy was shaped, decisions made, orders sent...
...KOZLOWSKI, 55, former chief executive of Tyco International, and MARK SWARTZ, 42, the company's former chief financial officer, with enterprise corruption, a charge often used in Mafia prosecutions, and grand larceny, for allegedly looting $600 million of company money to buy everything from Park Avenue apartments to Harry Winston jewels; in New York City...