Visiting British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, center, sits with John Foster Dulles, left, secretary of state-designate; Bernard Baruch, second from right, and Winthrop W. Aldrich, ambassador-designate to the Court of St. James, in Baruch's home in New York.
Marty Lederhandler, Associated Press
Cody Carlson's account of Sir Winston Churchill was enjoyable but incomplete ("This week in history: Churchill becomes PM," May 8). Few Americans remember Churchill as a slim, trim and handsome horse-mounted calvary officer. Pistol in one hand and lance in the other, he participated in one of history's last, great horse-mounted charges at Omdurman, Sudan in 1899.
Everyone knows of his tenacious courage, few of his artistic abilities, including a Nobel Prize in literature and nearly 500 widely acclaimed canvases.
The temerity of President Obama returning the bust of this giant must be seen as repudiation of exact opposites in character and accomplishments.
Churchill seldom used I, me, my and mine in writing, and he would have scoffed at the mention of a teleprompter. This once "junior lieutenant of horse" filled his destiny because of core convictions based on the great moral truths Western civilization developed, which today are under assault.
Fred L. Greer
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In the oval office where Churchill's bust once sat, now sits a bust of Abraham Lincoln. You have a problem with that?
Wow! Talk about old news. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair sent the Churchill bust to President Bush following the 9/11 attacks as a gesture of transatlantic solidarity and it remained in a prominent location in the Oval Office for the remainder of More..
Much ado about nothing. I think the only appropriate bust in the White House should be Julius Caesar. That's every president's real role model.