Sir Winston Churchill and General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sir Winston Churchill and General Dwight D. Eisenhower

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

Raleigh Tavern (Williamsburg, Va.)

Block 17. Building 6A.

Heads of State - United Kingdom

Prime Ministers - United Kingdom

Visitors, Foreign

Generals - United States

During his 1946 tour of the United States with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sir Winston Churchill made plans to visit Colonial Williamsburg, now twelve years old after the opening of its Historic Area. Mr. Churchill and General Eisenhower arrived by a special train on Friday, March 8, 1946. Their party enjoyed a tour of the Historic Area, followed by a visit to the Wren Building at the College of William and Mary. During their carriage ride, the horses were frightened and the tour continued by car. General Eisenhower recalled how “Sir Winston didn’t pay any attention [to the frightened horses], he just lit his cigar.”
After the tour, Mr. Churchill and General Eisenhower were invited to tea at Raleigh Tavern by Mr. Kenneth Chorley, President of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, where this photograph was taken. They proceeded to dinner at the Williamsburg Inn. Sir Winston Churchill graced Colonial Williamsburg with an eloquent speech at dinner, concluding with a generous wish: “Long may Colonial Williamsburg flourish! Firm may be the links which it may forge with our past, and may those links of distant by-gone days be reinforced by new links and new bonds which will reach across the ocean and join our two peoples together.”

Dementi, Frank A.

Larson, Chiles

1946-03-08

1946-03-08

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1955-CL-1427

Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Gelatin silver print

8x10 inches