Published the 24/01/2025 10:55
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8:30 p.m. Friday
The magazine “8:30 pm on Friday”, presented by Laurent Delahousse, offers a offbeat and sparkling look at a news or society.
As soon as you arrived at the White House, Donald Trump demanded that the bust of a certain is installed in his oval office … Winston Churchill. He was one of the most atypical and charismatic politicians of the 20th century, and he died exactly 60 years ago, on January 24, 1965.
-Admired for his tenacity in front of the Germans during the Second World War, for his talents as a speaker and even writer – he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his many writings -, Churchill is also known for his jumps as Mood and humor, and its immoderate taste for alcohol and cigar.
Shortly before he resigned from his duties as Prime Minister at 80, the British parliamentarians gave him a birthday gift they wanted to live up to the great man: his portrait, by the painter Graham Sutherland. “8:30 p.m. Friday(New window)(New window)(New window)(New window)” (X(New window)(New window)(New window)) tells how Sir Winston Churchill reacted this canvas.
A report by Céline Joly, Félix Albert and Olivier Marzin.
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