
“The Truth is Great, and Shall Prevail”: Remembering Bill Rusher 1923-2011
William A. Rusher …
came to our aid in a pinch. Striving to “balance” our political speakers, we Churchill Conference organizers planning the 1994 event in Banff, Alberta wanted a conservative. We had welcomed the liberal Roy Jenkins on our Scottish Churchill Tour that summer. We’d invited Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and William Manchester to address our 1995 conference. So to Banff we invited Milton Friedman, to explain why Churchill was right (yes!) to put Britain back on the gold standard when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Twenties. (It was what Churchill didn’t do, in wage and tax policy, Dr.…