A December Night When The World Changed Forever, Part II

As Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill stood on the portico of the White House on the night of December 22nd, they would be looking out on a world that had dramatically changed in two short weeks.  It is equally remarkable that these two "chess masters" would be the catalysts for the major events that will occur over the next four years.  

Winston Churchill is arrogant, pig-headed, temperamental...and brilliant at grasping the realities of lightning changes....then moving his own pawns to counter those of his adversaries.   A  brilliant orator, he is perhaps the only Brit alive who could have steered Britain through the storms of catastrophic war.

A December Night When The World Changed Forever, Part I

I have often written of my deep love of history; how, while many pick up a history book and see only remote dead men in one dimension,  I've been blessed with the gift to see our historical figures in three dimension as they leap from the page, shake hands and say "how do you do".  Never has that feeling been more pronounced than when I recently read in great detail of the night of 22 December, 1941.

It was on that night, only two weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack,  that two of the 20th century's historical giants stood on the top portico of the White House, looking out on the masses of people singing Christmas carols in Lafayette Park across the street.