New book reveals how Obama tucked UK prime minister into bed after game in Dayton

[OilemFirchen]

As Cameron explains in his recently released memoir “For the Record (HarperCollins, $40),” Obama extended extreme hospitality to the British politician following the basketball game, Cameron’s first.

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“Traveling back on Air Force One, I was beginning to flag (tire). It was about 3 a.m. UK time. ‘Why don’t you use my bed?” Obama asked. He opened a door at the front of the plane, to reveal a double bed in its nose. As I leaned back on it, he proceeded to tuck me in with a blanket... ‘ I bet Roosevelt never did this for Churchill,’” he said.

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“So I duly did and Barack went to the back of the plane and explained to my private secretary and the team, he said ‘Don’t worry, the British Prime Minister is fine, I’ve just tucked him up in bed’.”

https://www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyles/new-book-reveals-how-obama-tucked-prime-minister-into-bed-after-game-dayton/1cNnFJoEk95q4kpqyegtkK/

[rhiannon55]

1. I love that man!

What a kind and generous way to behave. ❤️

[madaboutharry]

2. So much warmth and grace.

Now we have this low class creep.

I miss President Obama.

[Sugar Smack]

3. "I bet Roosevelt never did this for Churchill"

I meant to chuckle at that, but I just feel like weeping.

[catbyte]

11. So do I.

We've lost so much.

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. That choked me up!

How far we have fallen.

[rzemanfl]

4. As I recall there is a story about Churchill, Roosevelt and a bathtub....

can someone back me up on that? I think Churchill said something about the Prime Minister having nothing to hide from the President.

[babylonsister]

5. Here: "Nothing to Hide": The Truth about Churchill's Naked Encounter

Richard M. Langworth
Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian
Naked
FDR and Churchill at the White House. (AP)

“Nothing to Hide”: The Truth about Churchill’s Naked Encounter
27 May 2011 Comments 5 Comments
Stark Naked

Churchill (stepping naked from his bath): “The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States.” **

[Also quoted as: “You see, Mr. President, I have nothing to hide.”]

Churchill allegedly said this during his visit to the White House in December-January 1941. The Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and America was in the war. The encounter was confirmed by Churchill’s bodyguard, Walter Thompson, and one of his secretaries, Patrick Kinna. On the strength of their comments I included it as “likely” in Churchill By Himself.

The story goes that Roosevelt thought to call the new world body he hoped to organize after the war the “United Nations.” Excited about the name, he wheeled himself into Churchill’s room. There he found Churchill, as Harry Hopkins, put it, “stark naked and gleaming pink from his bath.” Hopkins repeated his version of this remark (using “conceal” instead of “hide”) often enough to raise a presumption in favour of its veracity. But perhaps not!
Churchill’s Recollection

Churchill never confirmed the wisecrack attributed to him by Thompson and Kinna. Queried by Roosevelt biographer Robert Sherwood, Churchill said: “I could not possibly have made such a statement as that. The President himself would have been well aware that it was not strictly true.” Churchill told Sherwood he “never received the President without at least a bath towel wrapped around him.”

Of course, receiving the President in a bath towel may have been enough in Churchill’s mind tell King George VI (just after returning from Washington): “Sir, I believe I am the only man in the world to have received the head of a nation naked.”

more...

https://richardlangworth.com/churchills-naked-encounter

[rzemanfl]

7. Thank you very much. n/t

[babylonsister]

8. Most welcome. nt

[spanone]

6. Trump would put the pillow over his face.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

13. I'm not sure if the British citizenry would be all that upset

If it were the current guy that is.

[Karadeniz]

9. He's a sweetie...a huge soul!

[roamer65]

10. I miss our last truly presidential president.

No drama Obama.

[paleotn]

12. I do love that man.

Barack Obama that is. Now THAT'S a President.

[betsuni]

14. This is so cute.