Together they worked out the arrangements for American aid to Britain short of full belligerency, and they often met in person to direct the combined effort after the U.S. entered the war in December 1941. In 1963, two years before Churchill’s death, President John F. Kennedy and the U.S. Congress conferred honorary American citizenship upon Churchill, a distinction accorded only once before, to the Marquis de Lafayette. The six sections of “Churchill and the Great Republic” cover Churchill’s life from his youth through his heroism during the Boer War at the turn of the 19th century, his marriage to Clementine Hozier, his service in the trenches of World War I, his leadership of Great Britain and his relations with the United States during World War II, and finally his last years as a private citizen.
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