Bring about peace and dangerous place Like Northern ireland. The reason the price is given because youre not going to go and fascinate somebody who just won the nobel peace prize. Its bringing world attention. The most significant Pulitzer Prize is the one for Public Service been given to newspapers daringly covering something the community didnt want them to cover. The journalists are ostracized, the local towns often pull out their advertisements and the newspapers right about some lame it could be a scandal, but the community doesnt want to hear about it. When i got the Pulitzer Prize, its a recognition, National Recognition and in a sense provides the same umbrella of protection to people who are daring. Postservice and extraordinarily significant person who still to this day affects our lives. Jessica child may recognize they have a mannerism from their father or mother or habits, he said he say andesite another. He recognized the series. With the culture need to understand how this would have today, when you leap pulitzer you understand the traits we have about consumption is, understanding is, a form of entertainment. These radical notions from his time we inherited to build our society. The other thing perhaps really important in a seismic change going on at the american media. Pulitzer hammered away the newspaper is not just a business. Its a Public Service aspect that a democracy cannot function without an informed public, that somebody has to be at the School Board Meeting at 2 00 in the morning and asked users to the next school. As for pressuring sudan, there are no people at those meetings keep an eye on things. The press ultimately likes the darkest recesses and we know the hardships of poverty, whether we want to or not because of the press. We know corruption and it gets fixed because of the press. We know with on the public agenda, sometimes too much like the fiscal cliff over and over again. These are critically important roles the press plays. Its a reminder that these are businesses run by the new york times, the washington post, but they performed this enormously civic action of informing us. The question we deal with his diocese papers no longer support themselves, what will come next . That will be part of what i hope people will take away. For more information, santa fe, new mexico and other cities local content vehicles. Go to cspan. Org local content. Up next, someone talks about dinners hosted by Winston Churchill during and after world war ii, which is used to persuade world were leaders on various matters. Its about 45 minutes. Good evening. Thank you for coming. Im delighted to see you here to talk about my new book, dinner with churchill policymaking at the dinner table. Since i book is about the importance of dinner, i will be brief. I just want to whet your appetite so that go buy my book. Those try another sentence. I have lived with Winston Churchill for four years and it was wonderful, even though that took place in the frigid archives at churchill college. Im often asked ray got the idea for another book on churchill to ask the thousands are to britain. When i read about this fascinating man and his important accomplishments were achieved at dinners. Sometimes that lunch is. As i began to wonder why that was so come away most of the deal struck as the Famous International conferences held during world war ii were made at or facilitated by dinners at which the leaders were more relaxed and informal session. So i began digging into the churchill archives. Not only did i find the more famous dinners with president s roosevelt and truman done with stalin, but the details of Churchill Churchill setting the stage for generous with his generals, political friends and foes, leading academics and a host of interesting people. His dinners usually pretty 10 to 15 people and very often members of his own family. These dinners is the right description is churchill booked to perform at these affairs. You have the company and the entertainment and buddhist gas. At one dinner with great exuberance, using wineglasses and decanters to show the position of the ships and blowing smoke from his cigar to imitate the cannon fire. It would have been wonderful to have been there. The topics are churchills table were wide ranging, hot and cold backups, floating harbors, movies. That hamilton woman was a great favorite of churchills and of course politics and curiosity was boundless. Many guys record in their diuresis conversations, repeated his anecdotes and commented on the citysearch. In addition, i found hundreds of bills at the london hotels, with guest lists, amended wineglass come in many batters churchill complaining about overbuilding, think imprint circuits of food and wine, ranging tips for hotel waiters. All in the archives, all set out in my book. I produced many menus in my book in case any of you want to try to duplicate one or two at a special party at home. The wine list might be harder for you to replicate than 70 decades is churchill place disorders. Ive also noted his musical choices should should be amended to higher for your churchill party. I wrote about all of this because they shed light on the care churchill took to make this project is coming to sell policies. They also serve requirements in such remote places as tehran, casablanca and go code. I describe his choice of venue cigars to prolong after dinner discussions. My research told me what he ate and what each rank and with him and how it interacted with staff and with the british people during the war. Somehow make your return to reality. A human being the definite reaction, very negative reactions to white house cooking, mix cocktails served by hosts across the world. To keep cigars which the u. S. Military tried to get away with giving, to arguments from generals and tea diet plans and suggestions from his wife. These were largely ignored, especially one that involves eating only tomatoes. As i dug into these materials, it became clear that for some of the churchills great conversational skills and ability to create a congenial setting, mills had an advantage over most meetings. They could be as long as he liked them in the case of dinners could run into the wee hours for church gathers strength anothers tired. His daughter mary had dinner conversations often became so extended that mealtime tended to prolong themselves into the afternoon or evening with months lasting sometimes until half past three. A cynical evening, lets say, the Prime Ministers country has to begin at 8 30 bush and the in the drawing room. Cigars after the ladies were excused. When they rejoined the ladies 20 minutes or hats or later, a movie would be shown, even in wartime until about midnight when churchill would announce now to work in the dictated work until two or 3 00 in the morning and the next morning he would wake at 7 00 a. M. To start work again in bed, surrounded by step and military personnel until lunch. The more i read reports of these meals by those lucky enough to attend them, the clearer it became these are work emails, not social occasions. Other churchill hugely enjoyed them come eat above company. Churchillian sours at the table to educate others about policies to persuade them to go along omar for the latest political and social gossett. And get news the world. Remember there was no 24 hour news cycle in those days and private reports about plague us were often the best source of what was going on in the soviet union. His guests came from all walks of life although during the board they were the military politicians, british and american amateur show thought he could tolerate it, he once in a while how to dine at goal. But there is always a purpose to the dinners, to advance his country centuries to explain, to learn, exchange information. It is the conversation that mattered, setting the table method with a stage at which he could best perform. Heres just two examples but important purposes and outcomes. White house in december 1941, more about this later, and the second important dinner and a 242 and churchill after several long, grueling and dangerous place to avoid german fighters in the air flew to moscow to meet someone for the first time. Churchill had to bring a message to repeat a second front in 1942, and ally friend to divert german troops from soviet front lines. Churchill buys it took the u. S. Ambassador with him to show that the allies were united in this important strategic decision. After a full day of meeting, stalin invited churchill for a good idea and are it was a dinner that was. Just a twoman interpreters serving themselves in the kremlin from a full banquet, enough or 30 people topped off with as head. Stalin up in his knife, cleanup ahead, scraped a piece of me, which he offered a churchill on the end of his knife. Churchill politely refused, not able to show discussed was the ally, the commented later that the food was filthy. Churchill got what he wanted. Stalin agreed to the strategy. Let me spend a few minutes when i say churchills attention to detail is stunning. He designed a table in this country home. It was to be around and six feet in diameter. He told his wife to order chairs with arms to allow for relaxation to ease the conversation and permit long periods of time. And a better, he wrote, one does not want the dining room chairs spreading itself or it sounds as if it were a plant. She digested his dissertation. He always planned this evening to make sure the conversation flowed. And my book, there is an excerpt from his long mama on the proper design of dining rooms. So if any of you, let me know about issue copy of this memo. In 1909, to deliver churchills body house in london. His mother decorated it and churchill added to dining room at the back of the house. Tinplated coke, teammates and a butler. Blake jenkins, a good biographer said of churchill, he was not mostly pitted bilateral conversations, but with the table he could often be brilliant. If i could die in the once a week, thered be no trouble churchill said. The british and commonwealth countries that do not war for over a year. When pearl harbor was attacked. Churchill mail he would ensure america would not concentrate on fighting japan person said of hitler in europe. Churchill once decided to travel to washington to meet with roosevelt and move into the white house for three weeks. Was this the beginning of the special relationship . Perhaps. Now the british had a formidable ally when churchill and roosevelt in the white house, sharing every meal. They agreed among other things to establish a combined chiefs of staff. a la terry status from each of the services could Work Together with counterparts, all policies and strategies shared between the two countries. They set up a structure that would prosecute the war. Its agreed agreed by almost everyone at the Roosevelt White house that the cook, not shy from the state was the worst cook in history. Henrietta nesbitts menus included mushrooms, boat broccoli is, bavarian cream pie, molded jello, shredded cheese with tomatoes. Out of fashion to shirley and was the ballot count per pair. Even fdr complained about her food, the risk in the jobs. No wonder president roosevelt look forward to his famous childrens hour. The time of the next insert before dinner the two martinis. Churchill is of course on his best behavior, so he could not have complained about the food or mixed cocktails, although one source says they saw the Prime Minister empty his martini glass into a nearby potted plant. Another said he spit out the olives. Churchills only comment on weight has food came at price for opinion of the favorite knuckles. He did finally admit they were a bit slimy. British gas having the data of it like mad in the white house come a few times that once according to mrs. Nixons, to ask everyone in the u. S. At home to british pub one night per week as a rationing. Mrs. Nesbitt served chicken a la king two or three times a week, mr. Roosevelts discussed. But the british gas loved as sugarless ration of bread except for churchill who did not like his chicken asked about. One quick word about churchills coat about it at all coach for the churchill family in the 1930s ended with the churchill into downing street and stayed with the family until 1953. When churchill was again Prime Minister she was a superb and unflappable cloak. She never churchill liked and she cut it for him, i mrs. Nesbitt. Despite the bombing of london and the ritchie implant and gas, she took her churchill called that her world. Churchill was a defective knockoff of the tree. His mother zacarias attic and new york have been a much admired Society Hostess in london. She was famous for writing on political enemies to dinner and reading that as to facilitate discussion. Churchill once praised his mother by saying she had left no cutlet uncooked. Churchill mustve learned early on how to manage generic for its own purposes. In the book i describe how he deploys his attention to detail. At his Birthday Party in tehran in 1943, he arrange seating themselves. He had a table that could accommodate the 28th at chs in. He then had a staff sit down to see how to gather or far apart as to be. Imagine staffers spreading the others, watching churchill to make sure this evening was the way he wanted it. At this important dinner, churchill would meet with president truman for the first time. Churchill amended the menu to add another course, ham salad. And nobody knows what he had in mind when he added that course to the menu. A further thought i interpreters. Should they send the trainers say the behind the participants . Churchill decided to place interpreters slightly behind, not at the dinner table. This arrangement once again facilitated the conversation. But they had a few words about this rather rotund man like two d. The answer is churchill explains simple food perfectly cooked. No french sauces, no fancy pies, no concoctions. Churchill did not like his chicken messed about with. His favorite meal would be clear consomme or turtle soup, how to be good. , perhaps smoked salmon, meets, restrict and from that game season rare roast beef. He was after a english and for dessert, which are show called his putting, ice cream and perhaps chocolate sauce and then he peeled pear. Another word on consomme, which churchill loved. At the end of the working day, say 2 00 a. M. , the Prime Minister would say stoop outside very loudly. To start her day. I was a signal to working day was over. The secretaries could leave to begin taping of todays mouse and he would have his cold jelly consomme, which he always say before going to bed. Churchill loved all games, especially inebriate kisan aspirant. At one dinner he said quote, this goose was a friend of mine. And all my research into churchills life, and never found a mention of a vegetable and he made fun of vegetarians, whom he called not eaters. Well, gentlemen, if you fish toying with your hebrew, we look anon with more important matters. Ill do not eaters ive ever have died early after a long period of senile decay. Another churchill favorite food was irish stew with plenty of finance and surprisingly, sometimes pineapple. This is a male churchill served to general eisenhower when they planned the invasion of europe. And of course caviar. Churchill loved caviar. He was thrilled when stalin sent him caviar or Harry Hawkins for a caviar back as a gift from the soviet union. Churchill a small portion. When traveling he had meal served on his tummy time, not on the clocks. Churchill loved picnics. Whatever the place or the weather, even in wartime is a wonderful photo showing churchill in a threepiece suit enjoying a picnic sitting on a rock by the side of the road. He picnickers roosevelt hyde park. He picnic on the banks but these generals in the north african desert with friends. He established his own picnic rituals, enthusiastically singing old indian army toast and calling for verses that could only be separated by picnics. Much has been said about churchill and alcohol, some other true, most not, some exaggerated. I go into detail about churchills trinket habits. Churchill had been told roosevelt had mental churchill was a job come to church one or two critics repeated. Churchill did consume more alcohol than we are used to today, but not a great deal bystanders of his contemporaries and drink did not affect him or his work. Churchill drank a small amount of whiskey with soda, no ice in a class about this big. His staff, not flash. At lunch and dinner he drank half a bottle of champagne. Thats a different size in half bottles we know, smaller than ours today. So if they bring to your. Lets talk about champagne, churchills favorite drink. We are not sure when they first discovered champagne, but he prefers that champagne to all the others. His favorite vintage with a 1928 on each of his birth days, sent in a case of the 1928 intel supplies ran out in 1953. A churchill died in 1965, hed only gone through the 1934 vintage. After his death, ordered all bottles imported to britain would have a black strip across the bottle. Every dinner in every important occasion throughout his life was marked for champagne. After dinner, churchill drank randy come and meet. By the way, early in his life the doctor had recommended randy and set of ports. This is one of the few times he followed that berserkers. Perhaps knowing port could be bad for what he called his indy, his indigestion, something he suffered from occasionally, which is not surprising given the meals he had with the likes of stalin. By modern standards, this is a large amount of alcohol, but churchill discovered and hesitated. Ive read many journals and diaries and many a great alcohol enhances enjoyment in this phenomenal ability to talk. At one point, churchill s. Hopkins, wife of water in his quest tasted so funny. Hopkins told him it tasted funny because there is no whiskey in it. He was not affected by alcohol and it never interfered with his work. Padilla been Prime Minister during the war and minister of defense citibank capacity to . I think not. Only two people wrote the churchill was from alcohol. Most of a staff member reported to stalin but he thought stalin wanted to hear at the second was a private secretary to anthony eaton, who also wouldve liked to report to his boss that churchill was struck, but churchill would have never been able to work as he did for so many years and so successfully of alcohol or take a hold of. Churchill very much enjoyed the legend of his drinking added by the bursting of the consumed, and macho habit was habit which he i