On Dec 22, 1941, two weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Winston Churchill arrived in America to stay with US president Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House. War was the subject.
One morning, so goes the story, Roosevelt turned up without warning at Churchill’s room to find the British prime minister in a state of complete undress. “You see, Mr President,” Churchill reportedly quipped, “I have nothing to hide.”
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