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  1. William R. Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    Mussolini, completely misreading the situation,
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  2. William R. Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    outline his frontier demands, Stalin
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  3. William R. Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A

    bouffant coiffures.
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  4. William R. Manchester _ The Last Lion Box Set: Winston

    The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, if he wins, knows the thrills of high achievement, and, if he fails, at least fails daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -JOHN F. KENNEDY on Theodore Roosevelt New York City, December 5, 1961
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  5. William R. Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A

    Social security was the most emotional issue that session. Republicans protested that if the administration bill were passed, children would no longer support their parents, the payroll tax would discourage workmen so much that they would quit their jobs, and that, taken all in all, the measure would remove the "romance of life.
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  6. William R. Manchester _ The Last Lion: Visions of

    read three or four books at a time to avoid tedium"-and
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  7. William R. Manchester _ The Last Lion 2: Winston

    In Parliament a fellow MP whispered to him that his trousers were unfastened. "It makes no difference," Winston replied wryly. "The dead bird doesn't leave the nest.
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  8. William R. Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    Churchill, too, offered Roosevelt a name for the war; it summed up in three words the entire legacy of the appeasers and isolationists: "The Unnecessary War.
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  9. William R. Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    In Churchill's moral paradigm, loyalty was an absolute, where trust admitted to degrees.
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  10. William R. Manchester _ The Last Lion: Visions of

    Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary; it fulfils the same function as pain in the human body, it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things.
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  11. William R. Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    People who go to Italy to look at ruins won't have to go as far as Naples and Pompeii in the future.
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  12. William R. Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    The idea that you can vote yourself into prosperity is one of the most ludicrous that was ever entertained.
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