Winston Churchill prophesied, made, and recorded history. In thechronicles of world events, it is difficult to think of others--besidesChurchill--who qualify for this singular distinction.
As a young subaltern, he rode in one of the last cavalry charges, inthe Sudan in 1895. As a British prime minister, he was consultedwhen the United States launched the hydrogen bomb in 1953. Heserved in the cabinet in two world wars. When he first took his seat inParliament in 19oo, he took his oath to Queen Victoria. When heresigned his seat in Parliament in 1964, Lyndon Johnson was U.S.President.