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Churchill’s Leadership, Denver 20-21 Apr. 2015

20 November 2014 Comments 1 Comment

“Churchill’s True Greatness: Lessons for Today”

National Leadership Seminar

Omni Interlocken Resort, Denver, Colorado, April 20-21, 2015

This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Churchill becoming prime minister in 1940, and the fiftieth anniversary of his death in 1965. This Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar will examine 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.

Tuesday, April 21st

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

Churchill-Syria Analogies: A “Syrious” Situation

8 September 2013 Comments 0 Comments

Interesting Churchill-Syria hits on Google Alerts for September 8th:

Will Durst, in “Pied Piper of the Potomac” (Summit Daily):

Everyone pretends not to be knee-deep in the icky, tricky, sticky Syria situation. You might say Washington is in a Semi-Syrious mode right now. And a Semi-Not-So-Syrious mode. Simultaneously. Because this whole affair is riddled with enigmas and mysteries enough to make Winston Churchill spin his conundrums right off. And rumor has it, he harbored huge conundrums.

He has that right. I don’t know if Will Durst is a Churchillian, but he certainly has Churchill’s knack for coining words.…