One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Winston S. Churchill
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking...
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking...
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking...
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking...
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After World War I, President Wilson was criticized for not declaring war on Germany until Germany had fired the first shot. Because of this, Wilson’s name became a by-word for appeasement and the president was frequently attacked in political cartoons as “The Man with the Candle.” It is said that Wilson suffered from insomnia and when he was in bed in his White House bedroom, he would hold a candle and stare at a drawer full of papers and documents which he thought might be relevant to the war. One night, without thinking, he said aloud: “One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.”

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