Original upload date: Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Mon, 06 Dec 2021 00:47:31 GMT
President John F. Kennedy signs Proclamation 3517 declaring Winston Churchill an honorary citizen of the United States.
A deeply moved Sir Winston Churchill, sitting in his London home with his wife b
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eside him, watched a satellite relay of a White House ceremony giving him honorary United States citizenship.
President John F. Kennedy praised Sir Winston as a defender of freedom, wartime leader, orator, historian, statesman, and Englishman. The President's opening remarks gave eternity the classic tribute to one of Sir Winston's greatest achievements: "He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle."
After Sir David Ormsby Gore, the British Ambassador to the United States, thanked the President, Randolph Churchill, in a voice many thought reminiscent of his father's, stepped forward to read Sir Winston's response.
The ceremony was held in the Flower Garden at the White House after which President Kennedy and First Lady Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy held a reception in the East Room.
