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.”

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This was one of many visits 'Uncle Walter' made to Colonial Williamsburg. He would return to give remarks at a General Assembly meeting held in the Capitol, as a noted guest to a Colonial Williamsburg Board of Trustees meeting, and as a journalist to cover the final Ford/Carter debate of the 1976 Presidential Election, held in Williamsburg.]]>