This is John Batchel. Churchill's third visit to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's White House was in May of 43.

He also addressed Congress, as he had in December of 41. Bob Schmull, his new book is Mr. Churchill

in the White House, the untold story of a prime minister and two president, explains how Churchill used

these occasions not only to speak to the American public,

not only to speak to the members of Congress, but also to persuade the combined joint chiefs

and Mr. Roosevelt and all the counselors that Churchill's idea of a second front was in the

Mediterranean, not in the

North Sea. And he closes his argument very carefully by asking George Marshall to come with him

to the Mediterranean to look over where Churchill has in mind for the second front.

Here's Bob Schmull on Churchill persuading with words, always with words.

And Churchill decides that he will again speak to Congress.

And what we have to remember, and it's fascinating to me, is that Winston Churchill

wrote every bit of the speeches that he delivered when he was in the U.S. He wrote the speech for

the lighting of the Christmas tree. He wrote the first speech to the first speech for the lighting of the Christmas tree.

He wrote the first speech to the, the first speech to the Congress in December of 41.

So he's back writing this speech for May of 43, where he tries to sort of go down the middle.

There had been a number of people who were suggesting that they ought to emphasize the war in the Pacific even more strongly. And he is trying to get by that and phrase it in such a way that he tries to mollify, tries to mollify them.

But more than anything, he is trying to establish his own thinking with the Americans.

At the end of that visit, he takes Marshall with him to the Mediterranean to investigate

the war front there.

Why did he do it?

He was trying to influence him to his way of thinking rather than

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