The secret Christmas Churchill spent living in the White House

Sources

Sources

• Winston S. Churchill, The Grand Alliance (1950): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.17694
• Lord Moran, Churchill: The Struggle for Survival 1940-1965 (1966): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.63861
• Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins (1948): https://archive.org/details/rooseveltandhopk006306mbp
• Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember (1949): https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.185019
• Foreign Relations of the United States, The Conferences at Washington, 1941-1942, the telegrams and the Declaration by United Nations: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1941-43
• Press conference of the President and the Prime Minister, 23 December 1941: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/joint-press-conference-with-prime-minister-churchill
• Churchill's address to Congress, 26 December 1941, as printed in the Congressional Record, and the Senate Historical Office: https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Churchill_Addresses_Congress.htm
• John Vale and John Scadding, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (2017), on Churchill's heart: https://doi.org/10.1177/0141076817745506
• Robert Schmuhl, "Mr. Churchill in the White House", White House Historical Association: https://www.whitehousehistory.org/mr-churchill-in-the-white-house-1
• National Park Service, the National Christmas Tree lightings of 1941: https://www.nps.gov/whho/learn/historyculture/1941-1953-tree-lightings.htm
• Yousuf Karsh's account of the portrait, Art Canada Institute: https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/yousuf-karsh/key-works/churchill/
• Alonzo Fields, My 21 Years in the White House (1960)
• Richard M. Langworth on the bath story: https://richardlangworth.com/churchills-naked-encounter
• FDR Library, the White House Map Room: https://fdrlibrary.org/map-room

Pictures

• Universal Newsreel's "Churchill in America" (December 1941) and "Churchill Safe at Home" (1942), and US Navy film of Pearl Harbor (US National Archives); photographs by the Admiralty and Army official photographers who travelled with Churchill (Imperial War Museums); the telegrams, the press conference transcript, the War Department situation maps and reports, the tree-lighting programme and the Declaration by United Nations (US National Archives and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library); Yousuf Karsh's portraits of Churchill and Canadian Wartime Information Board photographs (Library and Archives Canada); the Christmas tree lighting, the press conference, Roosevelt in his wheelchair, the White House Map Room and Shangri-La, from the FDR Presidential Library & Museum (CC BY 2.0); photographs from the FDR Library, the Library of Congress (Harris & Ewing, FSA/OWI, National Photo Company), the National Park Service (Abbie Rowe, 1947-48) and the New York Public Library; Lord Moran photographs, Wellcome Collection (CC BY 4.0); a sherry glass, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (CC0); the Bank of England's specimen image of the £5 note.
• Which of these would you have most liked to see for yourself: the drinks list, the chair at the press conference, or Roosevelt wheeling in on the bath?