Collection State Dinners
A State Dinner honoring a visiting head of government or reigning monarch is one of the grandest and most glamorous...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt hold a Press Conference
- Date of Work
- December 23, 1941
- Credit
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt hold a Press Conference
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt give a joint press conference in the Oval Office of the White House, December 23, 1941. Churchill's visit came in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States formally entering World War II earlier that month. The Prime Minister would go on to make numerous visits to Washington throughout the conflict.
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