Josh Hawley: “in the fall of 1945, former Prime Minister Winston Spencer Churchill received an otherwise nondescript letter from a…”

“in the fall of 1945, former Prime Minister Winston Spencer Churchill received an otherwise nondescript letter from a college in the middle of Missouri that I suspect he had not heard of. It was from Westminster College, in Fulton, MO--a letter signed by the president, F.L. McCluer--and it invited the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to come and deliver a lecture in the winter of 1945 or 1946, or in the spring of 1946, as the letter says. ``We should be glad to arrange the date or dates to suit your convenience,'' the President of Westminster told this most famous of former Prime Ministers. I wonder what might have happened had there not been a postscript attached to this same letter, handwritten at the bottom in the left corner, as it came to Mr. Churchill, in a different hand from that signed by the president. The postscript reads: This is a wonderful school in my home state. Hope you can do it. I will introduce you. And that is signed by Harry S. Truman. Well, as it turns out, Winston Churchill accepted this invitation from F.L. McCluer and Harry S.…”