Franklin and Winston by Jon Meacham

Author:Jon Meacham
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781588363299
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2003-10-14T10:00:00+00:00

WHEN CHURCHILL ARRIVED at Quebec from Hyde Park on Sunday morning, August 15, Clementine met the train. Mary found her “looking better,” but Mrs. Churchill had not greatly improved. Even without having to make public appearances, Mary wrote, “ ‘Quiet little lunches’ and long sight-seeing drives with kindly strangers are not restful and relaxing to someone like Clementine, whose strict sense of obligation always meant she would appear at her best, and be at her best, however tired she might feel.”

Mrs. Churchill was underwhelmed by her husband’s comrade-in-arms. After such a buildup over the years, Clementine found Roosevelt a bit much. “My mother could be very critical and, at the same time, admire somebody very much,” Mary said. “That’s how she was with the President. She respected him enormously, but she was also a sharp spotter of clay feet, and she thought he could be very vain.” Roosevelt’s early sin: assuming too much familiarity. “He took the liberty of calling her ‘Clemmie,’ ” Mary said. “ ‘Cheek!’ she said. I howled with laughter; I thought it was very funny.”

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