NOMINEE: Winston Churchill
NOMINATED BY: George W. Bush, Governor of Texas
Winston Churchill was the century's best example of how
individuals can shape history rather than being shaped by it.
The force of his will and his words gave courage to his country
and saved the West. Yet it was also Churchill who, after World
War II, discerned the dangers to come from communist tyranny.
Just as he defined the moral issues of the 1930s and 1940s, he
defined the great moral challenge that would shape America's
role in the world up to our own time. Totalitarianism was the
greatest evil of the 20th century, and Churchill its most able
adversary.
--George W. Bush, Governor of Texas
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