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National Churchill Museum

We visited the America's National Churchill Museum in Fulton, Calloway County, Missouri on August 10, 2024, after we left Jefferson City on our way home. I am not a big museum vacation person, but hubby really wanted to visit this particular museum and we did not have the dogs with us, so it worked out well.

On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill and President Harry Truman were present in a college gymnasium in a small town as Churchill delivered his most famous post- World War II address called "The Sinews of Peace" ('Iron Curtain' Speech).

I was confused as to why Winston Churchill would visit this little town in Missouri and why it would be a national museum. I learned about President Harry Truman personally endorsing Westminister College's invitation to Churchill to speak. President Truman was the only President from Missouri. There have been several prominent people to visit and speak at Westminister College. Some of the others who visited to speak are President Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, President Geroge H.W. Bush, President Gerald Ford, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

There was an area of the museum where folks could sit down in a desk set up like Churchill's and give their best impression of him. There was a bust statue in the room as inspiration.