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When the conservatives were voted out of office in 1945 Winston Churchill was 71 years old, an age when most politicians would be thinking about retirement. But Churchill remained leader of the party in opposition and persistently hounded the labor of the government on security matters as the cold war developed. The door is lost at the 1950 general election. But were elected to government in 1951 and 77-year old Churchill became the Prime Minister for the second time. He concentrated his energy under—Britain’s relationship with the United States forging close tires with the Truman and the Isen Howard administrations but age was catching up with the great man and he suffered a stroke in 1953 although the public was told his collapse was due to exhaustion, Churchill stood down as Prime Minister two years later handing the reigns of power to Anthony Evan the husband of his niece but continue to serve as a member of parliament for another decade.
Then 1963 his son traveled to the United States as a representative of his ailing father to accept the first ever honorary American Citizenship of the Nation that ever granted. President John F. Kennedy’s presentation recognized the invaluable role Churchill played in furthering the Anglo American Alliance. Churchill was a trusted adviser and confidant to three presidents and his diplomacy helped written punctual well above its weight as a world parliament. While Churchill political career ended gloriously on his own terms his personal life was not as successful throughout his life he suffered from the bouts of depression he termed “The Black Dark” in 1963 his daughter Diana committed suicide. Churchill’s love of art, literature and travel provided a refuge for the great man. He held exhibitions of his paintings, won the Nobel price for literature for his historical writings and traveled the world with friends such as the shipping magnet Aristotle Onassis.
To on Churchill’s achievements Queen Elisabeth united him and invested him that the order of the Datu in 1953. There was also a plan to award—rather than the custom elder and bestowed on retiring prime ministers the mark on unparallel respect. However, Churchill turned down the offer to become Duke of London because the title would have been hereditary and prevented his son from taking up a political career in the House of Collins.
Churchill was admired by many people around the world, his bodyguard for 15 years Edmund Murray record an incident in the 1950’s when Eleanor Roosevelt said to him “You have the most interesting job Mr. Murray guarding the most wonderful statesman of all time. Churchill support you in the avocation crisis with the former Edward VIII was also never forgotten. With the Duke who wins the accounting so Winston as one of his greatest friends.” On the 24th of January 1965 Churchill died of complications following a stroke. The nation was promised into mourning and his body lay in state for three days, his coffin was taken by barge along the terms and cranes that London Dockland bow in a salute.
Churchill’s funeral was held in Port Cathedral in London, the first and non-royal state funerals since 1914. Dignitaries from more than a hundred countries attended. And thousands stood in silence across England when the train carrying his coffin past them on its way to the burial ground in the—Palace, his ancestral home. The tombstone had to be replaced in 1998 because of the huge number of people visiting his grave every year to pay their respects. In 2002 so Winston Churchill was voted the greatest of the hundred greatest Britain’s in the BBC poll. Time magazine rated him one of the most influential leaders in history.
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