Churchill admired him a great deal for his leadership in the First World War
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Are there other politicians with a background in journalism? Appreciate the foreign posting was a bit different back then, but does not seem a common pairing.
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Some. Ben Franklin. Warren Harding. Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Navy Secretary. Bartolomé Mitre, the president of Argentina in the 1860s. Reagan did Cubs radio. Churchill did war journalism during the Boer War.
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When David Lloyd George was asked about how he got on in Versailles, he replied with ‘not badly considering I was seated between Jesus Christ (Wilson) and Napoleon (Clemenceau).’
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I recall reading somewhere—perhaps it was Macmillan’s book on the peace conference—that even in his later seventies he began most mornings with boxing sessions.
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There's a riveting story about how US and German Wehrmacht soldiers joined forces and fought off an SS death squad sent to eliminate Clemenceau and other French VIP prisoners at Castle Otter in the last days of WW2. https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/last-battle …
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*Castle Itter
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