This sound recording of Prime Minister Churchill's address to Congress includes the remark: "I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British, instead of the other way 'round, I might have got here on my own."
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This primary source comes from the Collection CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Collection.
National Archives Identifier:
2194729Full Citation: Sound Recording 200.74; Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Address to a Joint Session of Congress; 12/26/1941; Sound Recordings Relating to World War II and the Postwar Era, ca. 1937 - ca. 1954; Collection CBS: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Collection; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/churchill-congress, May 4, 2024]