EP136: Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain and The Tone Deaf, Bad Poet Who Wrote The National Anthem
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College and Churchill scholar, tells the story of Winston Churchill being at a low point in his career when he delivered his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech in Fulton, Missouri; Marc Leepson, author of What So Proudly We Hailed: Francis Scott Key, A Life, brings us the story of how Francis “Frank” Scott Key wrote our national anthem right after one of America’s great military victories.
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00:00 - Winston Churchill and the Iron Curtain
23:00 - The Tone Deaf, Bad Poet Who Wrote The National Anthem
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| 0:00.0 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything here on this show, including your stories. |
| 0:15.7 | Send them to Our American Stories.com. |
| 0:18.3 | They're some of our favorites. |
| 0:19.4 | And one of our favorite subjects to cover on this show are stories about American Stories.com. There are some of our favorites. And one of our favorite subjects to cover on this show are stories about American history. |
| 0:24.8 | And history in general. |
| 0:26.5 | And all of our history stories are brought to us by the great folks at Hillsdale College, |
| 0:30.6 | where you can go to learn all the things that are beautiful in life and all the things that are good in life. |
| 0:34.9 | And if you can't get to Hillsdale, Hillsdale will come to you with their free and terrific online courses. |
| 0:40.7 | Go to Hillsdale.edu. |
| 0:43.7 | Speaking of which up next, |
| 0:45.5 | a history story from Hillsdale College President Larry Arne |
| 0:49.2 | on a perilous time in world history. |
| 0:52.2 | After World War II, the Soviet Union, our former ally, had become |
| 0:56.2 | anything but, and the threat of another World War hung over the heads of everyone after they |
| 1:02.6 | would renege on treaties and stand diametrically opposed to the West. A massive division was |
| 1:08.4 | appearing between us and them. The person who would give a name to this division was appearing between us and them. |
| 1:11.5 | The person who would give a name to this division was Winston Churchill at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. |
| 1:19.1 | After being invited to speak there at a low point in his career, here's Dr. Larry Arne with a story of the Iron Curtain speech. |
| 1:28.3 | It was a world-changing fact when he got this invitation, and it came at a low moment for him. |
| 1:35.2 | The July 5th, 1945 election, when they got the votes counted, Churchill had lost in a landslide. |
| 1:41.9 | And then in October, three months after, |
| 1:44.9 | he gets this letter from the president of Westminster College, |
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