CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings January 1, 2014
He understood the United States better sometimes than we even understood ourselves. He was the son of an american mother, proud to have had two great grandfathers who fought in George Washingtons army. One and the Berkshire County militia and the other is part of the fourth massachusetts regiment. It was fitting that in the shadows of world war ii, and and the dawn of the cold war, when some at home hoped the United States would turn inward, churchill looked outward again and across the atlantic. He traveled to the heartland of our country to a tiny college in fulton, missouri and he spoke of ...