National and State Tributes

Although born into the elite aristocracy at Blenheim Palace in 1874, one of Churchill’s greatest traits was an insatiable desire to live and learn; he found many like-minded people in America. President Kennedy formalised the association by conferring the great honor of citizenship of the United States of America in 1963. At the White House, Washington D.C. on April 9th, 1963 President Kennedy proclaimed

“Sir Winston Churchill, a son of America though a subject of Britain, has been throughout his life a firm and steadfast friend of the American people and the American nation…”

The President went on to remark,

“We meet to honor a man whose honor requires no meeting – for he is the most honored and honorable man to walk the stage of human history in the time in which we live.”

As the U.S. News & World Report Inc. showed in a recent edition

“He has become a hero in the United States, his mother’s homeland, where he remains today the object of a cult status”

“Churchill’s sun at the beginning of the third millennium has risen, no other citizen of the last century of the second millennium the worst in history deserves better to be recognised as a hero to mankind.” For most of his 90 years Winston Churchill was an inspiration. He lived under five monarchs, wrote many books, winning the Noble Prize for Literature in 1955, he was a prolific painter and even built walls in his Kentish estate. He believed in determination and achievement.

Some of the recognition and awards bestowed by the United and individual states are detailed below: