Congress to Honour Winston Churchill
 

Perhaps to balance the one removed from the Oval Office by President Obama? :hmm:

On Rare Busy Day on Hill, Congressional Leaders to Honor Sir Winston Churchill

Don’t blink Wednesday. If you do, you might miss something that has become in recent years very rare in Washington: Congress will be doing multiple things at once.

In the morning, a House-Senate committee will be discussing a compromise 2014 budget resolution and how to craft a set of long-term fiscal proposals at the same time a House panel will be examining Obamacare’s sluggish start. In the afternoon, another House-Senate conference committee will be working on a compromise Farm Bill.

Intercepts readers have a stake in one of those, with the budget committee expected to examine how to replace the remaining nine years of sequestration cuts with other deficit-paring items. (Your Defense News Congressional Correspondent will be live-tweeting any noteworthy tidbits from that session here.) But there’s another event on Wednesday that you likely will find interesting: A bipartisan group honors World War II’s “British Bulldog.”

Secretary of State John Kerry will join congressional leaders in the Capitol Building’s Statutory Hall to dedicate a bust of Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

“Placing a bust of Churchill in the Capitol is a fitting recognition of his service to the cause of freedom and his friendship to the United States,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said in a statement. “We will come together to salute this great statesman and honor his legacy of persistence, determination, and resolve.”

The occasion will feature a bipartisan list of speakers: Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

Your correspondent is just back from a holiday in London, which included a tour of Churchill’s underground WWII command center. Below is a pic I snapped of the door leading to the room where Churchill and his War Cabinet made countless strategic and tactical decisions.

You can watch the bust-dedication ceremony live at 11 a.m. (EST) on C-SPAN.

Heck, the USN even named a ship after him.

West Coast, also I believe that it is a tradition that the ship permanently has a Royal Navy navigation officer on an overseas tour.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/r...nto-portsmouth

Thank you, Sir!

Not a bad posting for a RN Lt for a couple of years, especially if single.

“Placing a bust of Churchill in the Capitol is a fitting recognition of his service to the cause of freedom and his friendship to the United States,” What a great tribute to a great man. I doubt there will be many since his premiership who will be so honoured by the USA, I wonder why.

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" I doubt there will be many since his premiership who will be so honoured by the USA, I wonder why."

I would suggest Maggie Thatcher would be one.

Stopped your President from becoming "lily livered" at a crucial time :O

The first RN exchange navigator of USS Winston S. Churchill was Lt Angus Essenhigh RN whose father, Admiral Sir Nigel Essenhigh GCB DL, was First Sea Lord 2001 - 2002. Angus, now a Cdr, is the Commanding Officer of HMS Daring currently deployed in the Pacific.

Two immensely talented and well-respected officers.

HMS Darling was in Sydney a few weeks ago.

This is obviously a nice posting given to the best ?

Well done congress, good story. Of all historical figures I would choose to visit Churchill when I invent my time machine. He really was a remarkable leader and a man for his time.

Churchill's mother was American.

This will probably the most useful thing they accomplish this week.

Probably the ONLY thing they accomplish today more likely.

I had heard that the USS Winston Churchill was the only boat with alcohol on board, not sure if thats true, i could see every USN matelo jumping from their dry ships if true.

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Winston Churchill

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Perhaps it's the same one? Nil cost win-win, you know it makes sense!

Its removal back in 2009 caused some comment in the American press including this:
Another contemporary press report at the time says the bust was "On loan from the Government's (UK) art collection:

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Why would that be ? (The only one with alcohol on board ?)

Seems this one was donated by the Churchill Trust. Soames looking more and more like his Grandfather, especially in profile (Yes, I know, the resemblance stops there). Weird having Roger Daltrey singing a version of "Stand by Me" as part of the ceremony, but of course it was an American ceremony. :E
Video: New Winston Churchill bust unveiled inside US Congress - Telegraph

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I live in Maine close to BIW, where she was built, a friend who works in the shipyard told me the wardroom was styled on a RN boat with drinks because of the British connection, i doubt it myself.

The USN is 'dry' below decks, not sure about the wardroom. Felt sorry for the US sailors when they came ashore in Aden, (+30C something and 95% humidity), they had been at sea quite a while and came straight to 4% to 5% beer. Slightest sign of showing the worse for wear and the USN shore patrol were on them in seconds! Just dozing off at a table was enough to be hauled away.