R.A. Butler Archives - Richard M. Langworth

bed — A Toby lookalike. Pondering his adored pet, Churchill asked: “…how is each feather clever enough to know that it should grow green, yellow or black so precisely according to its position on Toby’s anatomy?” (Photo by Asivechowdhury, Creative Commons)

Did Churchill Conduct Business in Bed? (Or: “Toby’s Roost”)

31 July 2021 Comments 0 Comments

“Business in Bed” is excerpted from the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. For the original text including endnotes, please click here. Subscriptions to this site are free. You will receive regular notices of new posts as published. Just fill out SUBSCRIBE AND FOLLOW (at right). Your email address will remain a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Q: Did Churchill conduct business in bed?

“I am a criminologist currently researching my next book and I need to know something about Churchill briefing colleagues from his bed. Is this true? Did Churchill work from his bed?…

Dewey, Hoover, Churchill, and Grand Strategy, 1950-53

26 September 2018 Comments 0 Comments

“Dewey, Hoover and Churchill” is excerpted from an article for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project. For the complete text, click here. The latest volume 20 of The Churchill Documents, Nomandy and Beyond: May-December 1944, is available for $60 from the Hillsdale College Bookstore.

A great joy of reading The Churchill Documents is their trove of historical sidelights. Volume 22 (August 1945—September 1951, due late 2018) covers the early Cold War: the “Iron Curtain,” the Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift and Korean War. It reminds us of the political battles swirling around the Anglo-American “special relationship.”…