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Sir Winston Churchill
Born November 30, 1874
Died January 24, 1965

The Prime Minister England, when it mattered, Sir Winston led the British to victory over the evil of Nazi rule in World War II – not an easy task, especially when many thought the British wave their white handkerchiefs, grab a pint and a final.

Churchill became famous as a journalist during the Boer War and the First World War, which attracts a large audience with its top-notch writing and acting in nine British regiments. Use advertising its high-profile exploits, Winston won a seat in the general election of 1900, the first victory in a political career that last sixty-two.

Churchill lost the election as a supporter of independent wrestling and liberal-socialist and won under the label of conservative "constitutionalist". The public gave more lives than a cat, and demonstrated his political courage time and repeatedly with the leadership, patriotism and fresh ideas.

At one point, Churchill never hesitate: the threat is a growing aggressiveness Germany. Opponents accused him of warmongering, promoting disarmament, but his instincts were dead-on. In 1940, the age of sixty-six, Churchill was finally appointed Prime Minister. A strong union was forged during World War II by the team with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin unlikely ally in the fight against the Nazi war machine.

Churchill public offerings and fire spirits remain high oratory during the bombing campaign, His popularity allowed him to survive several votes of confidence in Parliament.

It seems that Churchill's position as prime minister would be safe after leading his country to victory, but noooo. The masses loved like a warlord, but not to him as party leader, two months after VE Day, Churchill and his conservative cause was at the door.

Recover, as usual, he won first place in 1951 and remained prime minister until 1955, when the shots were forced to leave office. In 1953 he received the Nobel Prize in literature, in addition to being knighted by the Queen. He died in London in January 1965, and one there was someone came to the funeral of the great statesman.

Michael Stusser: Sir, you are in your file. . .

Winston Churchill: pajamas! Pajamas! Bloody Well Right. Got a man to be comfortable – and in my right hand is a good glass of bubbles. Want to join?

MS: "Champagne? No, sir; this is not even. . .

The cocktail hour WC: It's somewhere, my dear sir.

MS: Would you say you had a problem with the drink?

WC: All I can say is that I take more alcohol than it has done for me. Frankly, I watered my drink – I just wanted the Rusk, I could take under the table.

MS: And your interest in cigars. Where to start?

WC: Havana, 1895. I went there to see something direct military action and became addicted to the Cubans! We have lived more or less on cigars and oranges – the bees knees!

MS: Do you you're online?

WC: I had my oxygen mask installed so you can smoke spread through the air. If this is addiction, no, I do not know what it is. Now let's start this damn head to head, okay? What am I talking and listening?

MS: Come, sir.

[Churchill continues, writing notes in a notebook.]

WC: One moment, my son, I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. We're here. And let's begin.

MS: Maybe you can talk a little about your education.

WC: Feliz. My father, Lord Randolph Churchill was a politician too. Fantasy is in our blood. Royal blood, I might add – My Pops a descendant of John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, and was victorious wars of Louis XIV's France. Aces!

MS: Exactly. Uh, not to be delicate, but it has been speculated that Mr Churchill was not really yours. . .

WC: We did not the kind of relationship the father and son might want, for reasons I can not explain. In terms of who does what to whom, in the cabinet, I go.

MS: Your mother?

WC: The beautiful Jennie Jerome of New York. Lady Randolph. His father was immensely rich, but our personal booty. They put in boarding schools – that's how we did at the time, and although my mother rarely visited, I loved him, really. The thing is that I was all Underachiever in school. Lazy, the total lack of effort, not my cup of tea. Flores took me three attempts to pass the entrance exam to the Royal Military Academy.

SM: Well, you've done that, sir.

WC: Right. I was a hell of a writer as well, Did you know?

MS: Yes, you wrote —

WC: News Written Cuba, India, and campaigns on the Nile could avoid politics, and has a good go of it living from the pen. But I had a fever in 1900, I did. Maybe it was because my father was a leading politician, but I felt I had to run for Parliament, and finally won a position with its old slogan, "Tory Democracy." It has a nice ring to it.

MS: Probably helped were responsible.

WC: Loaded? As if drunk on a bender?

MS: No, loaded, as in rich countries.

WC: Do you have the wrong man, I fear. Although may have had a noble birth, I did not inherit a pot to piss in my mother spent all the loot that may have been there. In fact, the reason why I wrote my historical pieces because I need the money. Writing has allowed me to be my own master, as a politician.

MS always has been a great orator?

WC: Oh, no. I worked there. He had a speech impediment that kept me a little.

MS: You're kidding.

WC: Not at all, had a bit of Lisp. I was perfect for joint interventions – good as they get – but I must be careful the improvised. Interpreted as a demon.

MS: I heard a conversation he had with Nancy Astor women's rights wrong. Was this true?

WC: Oh, Lady Astor is a beauty. She was visiting Blenheim Palace, and we disagree on some things, to the point she told me that if she were my wife, she had put poison in his coffee. And I told her that if she were my wife drink!

[Laughter]

WC: He later became the first woman MP in the House of Commons by race. Toma!

MS: You've often been accused of crossing party lines for political purposes.

WC: And the two sides of the aisle hated with equal vigor. What counted was my popularity with normal individuals.

MS: Back in 1920 I had a little problem in Iraq.

WC: No is everybody? I really thought he could crush them from the air, but the Indians are bastards unattainable.

MS: What was the best decision never did?

WC: Getting married Clementine Hozier. No doubt – after he took the ball and chain, I was a winner, no matter what happened. After fifty and seven. Here is more than average. Cheers!

MS: And your best policy choice?

WC: So much choice – But probably put [Friend and industrial magnate] Lord Beaverbrook, in charge of large-scale production of the air in 1940. It was a fabulous business, and that allowed us to guide in trouble, you know, both with engineering and production.

MS: It helped that he had the best drivers in the world.

WC: Right – when you said, "Never in the history of human conflict was so much owed by so little, well, the" few "If the fighter pilots of the Allies, may God bless you.

MS: When you start worrying about the Germans?

WC: Oh, my God, early, early in the game. In 1911, if my years of law, the Germans sent a gunboat to Agadir [a Moroccan port to which France had rights] and I knew that if push came from the truth, which would have been, along with France. I began to prepare the navy, Lickity-split, then the cabinet to pay for increased spending on British naval history.

MS: Not to seem boring, but he has made the Second World War.

WC: I'm ready, it is without doubt. I'm old school when it comes to British values and what we represent. One of the last true Whig history.

MS: Sorry if I'm not in the history of black English.

WC: It is the belief that British have a unique greatness – the imperial destiny! This time was not take a step back and take a spot of tea, we need action, Jackson! And thrived in the conflict, added a challenge, even a conjecture crisis. The evidence of the soul, the challenges of the ball ol '. September 3, 1939, the day England declared war on Germany Neville Chamberlain put me in my old naval station and the word is out of the fleet: "Winston is back." Back, Baby!

MS: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, sweat and tears. "

WC: My first speech as Prime Minister [1940].

MS: Very stimulating.

WC: That's the idea. We were about to take on the enemy force text – balls need, the size of warships.

MS: Before the Battle of Britain.

WC: Spot-On. Then he said: "We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing fields, fight in the fields and streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender. "Bracing ourselves for our best, and it turned out, it really was.

MS: The inflection point?

WC: Through our courage. But she has contributed to the fight against the tyrant, a fool, uneducated.

MS: Hitler?

WC: Daft sot forgot the winter! He arrived in Russia in 1941 and simply forgot it was cold as the flowering of a vagabond queen sleigh ride, no – the time of freezing, the snow. Ha! I never did half as bad mistake!

MS: When the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor [7 December 1941] immediately went to Washington, DC

WC: Everything changed that day. Roosevelt and I have grouped all of us have had the resources to the Heads common good – military and economic, even combinations of Staff and Command. We were in the same boat, not a minute too late.

MS: Describe your relationship with FDR.

WC: requested marry me, she put me flat.

MS: No, it was the actress Ethel Barrymore. I asked about Franklin D. Roosevelt.

WC: Oh! Right! Well, we we were classmates, but, more importantly, we know what our country needs. I remember when he was reelected in 1940, we began our effort.

MS: "Give us the tools we can finish the job."

WC: And that was before Pearl Harbor, I remember we had a lend-lease program of running. I give her a ring in the old Tellie Dinge and Lend – give us, mind you – and other military supplies. As the key "Of course, did not send him one million pounds each bloody time they need ammunition.

MS: Are there discrepancies?

WC: Stalin was the problem, okay? Today, everyone knows that was a serial murderer, but I tell you there was a sensation. Franklin D. Roosevelt believed he could handle it – he thought he could prevent Poland and the Republic Czech. I far ahead of everyone in this case.

MS: modest, too.

WC: I finally FDR called the greatest American friend who had never met. But Stalin could never identify. Too many awkward pauses. Bloody Bonkers.

MS: V-day musta been amazing, huh?

WC: As I went around London, I was proud, but also had feeling of sensation in the stomach.

MS: having to rebuild?

WC: No, the Soviets under Stalin in the bar.

MS: You're like a blow with this record. . .

WC: It was an aggressive Ruskie if there ever was, and warned to all who listen to the communists that the news was bad.

MS: Exactly. The Iron Curtain speech. Anybody listening?

WC: Not really.

MS: It has not been treated well after the Second World War. In fact, said the great man who led the nation to war was not the man to carry alone.

WC: Damn! The Labor Party had invented this little slogan and it worked like a charm. In my not so humble opinion the reason is that we lost because of Conservative record, ten years earlier, with pickles Baldwin and Chamberlain, and I never had the opportunity to blood.

MS: Do you get bored after the war?

WC: Bored and brimming with ideas, Chapple. My ideas on the European Common Market were ahead of their time, and very necessary. This is not always easy being a visionary, my boy.

MS: What is your vision for the world today?

WC: I had the same vision: we need a world government my friend, a League of Nations. It consists of an irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of ensuring peace and preventing war. With him, there is no limit blessings to all men enjoy and share. That, and we should avoid the iron curtain to resume worldwide.

MS: Ah, the Cold War is over. The type of the Soviet Union went bankrupt and disappeared.

WC: Really? Well, thank God for that. Too much vodka and missiles, enough Chow on the table, eh? I knew it!

MS: Mr. President, it was a very interesting interview.

WC: Remember that all great things are simple and many can be expressed in one word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy and hope.

MS: Well said, sir. I fear we have lost —

WC: One last word is in order. First, I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

SM: Well, not —

WC: And finally, remember, many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and disgrace. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or wise. In fact, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government – except all that have been tested from time to time. Since the lounge room, okay? I tell my flight to South Africa, keep your chin moves longer.

MS: Thanks for your time, sir. I think I need a nap.

Copyright © Michael A. Stusser, 2007

The above is an excerpt from the book The Man Died Interviews
by Michael A. Stusser
Published by Penguin in September 2007, $ 14.00US / $ 16.50CAN; 978-0-14-311227-3
Copyright © Michael A. Stusser 2007

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Michael A. Stusser is a Seattle-based writer and inventor of the game. His "Accidental Parent column (ParentMap magazine) recently won the prestigious Gold Award Publications of education of the children of America. Stusser is a contribution to the drafting of mental_floss magazine and Seattle, and their work is frequently published by Law & Politics, Yoga International Magazine, Go World Travel Magazine.

Stusser is also the co-creator of The Game Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau (winner of "Best Game of the Year Group, GAMES magazine, 1994); EARTHALERT Assets of the game environment, and listen.

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