Winston Churchill is made a US citizen, April 9th, 1963
“A son of America though a subject of Britain,” President John Kennedy begins, referring to the fact that Churchill’s mother was a US citizen, “has been throughout his life a firm and steadfast friend of the American people and the American nation.” Kennedy stands in the White House Rose Garden. Churchill, the ninety-one-year-old prime minister whose inspirational courage helped save Britain during World War II, watches live by satellite from his home in London. The purpose of the Rose Garden ceremony is to make him an American citizen—the only foreign leader since Lafayette to be so honored.