A Lion Like Churchill

Winston Churchill recalled in his World War II memoirs that when the news of President Franklin Roosevelt’s death reached him in London, “I felt as if I had been struck with a physical blow … I was overpowered by a sense of deep and irreparable loss.”

Mr. Hayward is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980. He is presently at work on a second volume, The Age of Reagan: Lion at the Gate, 1980-1989, from which this article is adapted.

About the Author

Steven F. Hayward

Steven F. Hayward is the Edward Gaylord Distinguished Visiting Professor at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy.

Winston Churchill recalled in his World War II memoirs that when the news of President Franklin Roosevelt’s death reached him in London, “I felt as if I had been struck with a physical blow … I was overpowered by a sense of deep and irreparable loss.”

Mr. Hayward is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and the author of The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980. He is presently at work on a second volume, The Age of Reagan: Lion at the Gate, 1980-1989, from which this article is adapted.