Nye — Churchill broadcasting on VE-Day, 8 May 1945. On national health he earlier told Lord Moran: “The doctors aren’t going to dictate to the country, they tried that with Lloyd George.” (Imperial War Museum, public domain)

Churchill’s Leadership, Denver 20-21 April 2015

20 November 2014 Comments 1 Comment

Omni Interlocken Resort, Denver

“Churchill’s True Greatness: Lessons for Today”

Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar Program

This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Churchill becoming prime minister in 1940, and the fiftieth anniversary of his death in 1965. At Denver, the Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar examined Churchill’s extraordinary statesmanship and the lessons that may be drawn from his example today.

Monday, April 20th

5:30 p.m.: Reception

7:00 p.m.: Dinner

8:00 p.m.: “Why Americans Should Remember Churchill,” Charles Krauthammer, columnist and author, Things That Matter.

CK in 2011: “How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News? The answer is short and simple. I was young once … It is true that I’m a psychiatrist in remission. People ask me the difference [between psychiatry] and what I do in Washington and the answer is rather simple. In both lines of work I deal every day with people who have delusions of grandeur. The only difference is that here in Washington these deluded have access to nuclear weapons.”

Tuesday morning, April 21st

9:30 a.m.: “The Art of Being Winston Churchill,” Barry Singer, author, Churchill Style.

10:30 a.m.: “Churchill as a Defender of Constitutionalism,” Larry P. Arnn, President, Hillsdale College and author, Churchill’s Trial (2015).

12:00 lunch: “Churchill in His Own Words,” Richard M. Langworth, Senior Research Fellow, Hillsdale College; editor, Churchill By Himself.

Tuesday afternoon

1:30 p.m.: “Lessons from Churchill’s Great Contemporaries,” James W. Muller, University of Alaska; editor of new editions of Winston Churchill’s Great Contemporaries, Thoughts and Adventures, My Early Life and The River War.

2:30 p.m.: “Churchill and the Historians,” Andrew Roberts, author, Masters and Commanders, Napoleon The Great and Churchill: Walking with Destiny.

2018: “Walking with Destiny is a masterpiece—the finest single Churchill volume you can hope to read. To paraphrase Simon Schama on Gilbert’s volumes, it is a ‘Churchilliad,’ and Andrew Roberts is its Bard.”