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Considering the events of the last episode, they surely did spend a night recovering and discussing what just happened when they got home.
Reminder that Winston Churchill had said ’‘The Russians I have been told are not human beings at all, they are lower in the scale of nature than the orangutan, now let them take that down and translate it into Russian’’. and that Theodore Roosevelt had said, “No human beings, black, yellow or white, could be quite as untruthful, as insincere, as arrogant, in short, as untrustworthy in every way, as the Russians.” and these were Russia’s so-called ‘Allies.’ in WW2.
Persistent. Book of Winston
Following the stirring ceremony this morning that put the bust of a British statesman side-by-side with America’s founders, I just needed to make sure you all know that the U.S. has a National Churchill Museum. And it’s in Missouri.
To witness history:
Watch the Congressional dedication ceremony today HERE.
To encourage your inner Churchillian:
Go to Fulton, Missouri and support the National Churchill Museum. Sign up for their newsletter.
Subscribe to the Churchill Centre in Chicago to receive their stunning publications: http://www.winstonchurchill.org
Also, coming in 2014-15, there will be a National Churchill Library and Center at the George Washington University in D.C.
In 1941, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act into law; under the provisions of the act, the US could “loan” war matériel to allied countries, with the understanding that the other countries would return surviving equipment after World War II ended. In practice, very little of the matériel was returned after the war.
In all, the United States provided over 650 million dollars (in 2017 valuation) of aid to Great Britain, the Soviet Union, Free France, the Republic of China, and other allied nations. Stalin himself remarked on several occasions that without such aid, the Soviets could not have withstood the German juggernaut.
During the negotiations with the British over this law, Roosevelt, realizing the potential of these loans, asked British Prime Minister Winston Churchill if he understood the concept of “vigorish.” Churchill, who was shitrock drunk all the time but couldn’t handle himself like FDR, assumed that the President was (as Churchill would do) slurring his words.
“Oh, yesh.” He replied. “We musht and will make a vigoroush proshecution of thish war.”
The American President momentarily lost his legendary poker face and allowed himself a small grin. “Okay, pigeon–uh, Winston. Just sign on the dotted line.”
Later, upon passage, Roosevelt, realizing the importance of this law and the solemnity of the occasion, proceeded to get utterly blitzed on Negronis and rolled around the White House singing “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” until his aides begged him to stop.