This is John Batcheler. One of the consequences of the tragedy of the Eastern Front and the Western Front, the first war, is that they called it the Great War. It was the prelude to a much more horrible event, the Second War, although they are just one great

big battle. A new book Mr Churchill in the White House tells the story of Winston

Churchill, a soldier in the Great War, also a tells the by Nick Lloyd, the Calipoli campaign, associated with disaster and setback, was in the trenches

for a while, returned to the cabinet, and spent the in-between wars time 1918 to 1939 wandering around in the Commons

warning that what happened in the Great War was the conditions that

will set up a much worse conflagration. We know now that it happened and

Churchill's first visit to the White House during wartime

was after the Pearl Harbor attack. He'd been at war since September of 39 and had

become Prime Minister in the middle of 1940 during the disaster of the retreat from the

German offensive in the spring of 1940. But what we're looking at now is Churchill

at the White House many times with FDR as they talked about the war and it was important that first visit for Churchill to

present himself as a friend and ally of the United States these two working

together not rivals accompanying each other.

But Churchill had to choose a bed.

And this is the story Robert Schmool tells

of Churchill's choice of beds at the White House.

Also, Eleanor Roosevelt raised in Highborough every time he came wandering down the second floor corridor, the residence corridor,

wrapped in a bath towel with a cigar on one hand and a brandy and another, I fancy.

In the event, this is the first night at 22nd of December, 1941, U is at war with Japan and Germany and Italy have

declared war in the US. And Churchill wants to sleep comfortably. He also changes all bedrooms into his office space. He likes

to work in bed. Robert Schmull on Churchill's Choice. Much more of this later in the month.

It is in the living quarters of the White House on the second floor. It would not be at all open to the public.

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