March 18, 2026

National Churchill Leadership Center – Panel Discussion & Refreshments

Washington DC Event – March 26, 5:45 PM

Hosted by the International Churchill Society & The Truman Library Institute

Join us for a special conversation marking the anniversary of one of the most consequential

speeches of the twentieth century. RSVP: events@winstonchurchill.org

Special Note: This event will be recorded and added to our Podcasts Channels!

In March 1946, Winston Churchill traveled to Westminster

College in Fulton, Missouri, where he delivered his famous “Iron Curtain” address alongside President

Harry S. Truman. Historians continue to debate the origins of the Cold War, as history’s most

successful military alliance dissolved into forty years of bipolar ideological conflict between rival

superpowers. What did Churchill’s words signal to audiences in Washington, Moscow, London, Berlin,

and the wider world? With eighty years of hindsight, what is the speech’s legacy—and what did “cold

war” come to mean in the four decades of protracted superpower standoN that followed?

Panelists:

• Professor Gregory Daddis (Texas A&M University)

• Professor Jason Parker (Texas A&M University)

• Professor Arie Dubnov (George Washington University)