Churchill before Congress, Dec, 1941: "What kind of people do they think we are?"

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There are some rough cuts in the video, but some of the best parts of the speech are there.

BTW, Churchill really did receive FDR in the White House, nude, just out of his bath. Apparently FDR did not even bat an eye about it. Yet another reason to love Churchill.

Good wishes on Pearl Harbor Day.

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1. Churchill's prescient speech. On Dunkirk.

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There was no recording in Parliament, but Churchill recorded his wartime speeches after the war. I am sure that his speech at Whitehall was a bit more expressive than this. Nevertheless, it is still Churchill, speech impediment and all his flaws.

My favorite Churchill speech is one he gave to the London mayor's luncheon some time during the war, after Britain's triumph over the Nazi bombing. It was brilliant and I can remember some of it word for word. He had the audience actually giggling.

It started:

London is so vast and so strong. She's like a prehistoric monster into whose armored hide showers of arrows can be shot in vain.

(I forgot "armored".)

This is one of his iconic speeches, at the worst of the war, in July, 1941, when the Luftwaffe was killing many in the UK.

But Winnie was not going to take it. He puffed on his cigar, and drank his brandy, and took the war to the Nazis. And as Edward R. Murrow described him, he was the best broadcaster in the nation, speech impediment and all.

Here it is, this time recorded live:

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2. you might want to re-post this in the UK group also! nt