Draft of letter at Philadelphia auction shows Churchill’s dilemma over JFK offer

This typewritten draft of a letter from President Kennedy to Winston Churchill, with annotated amendments by JFK, will feature in the auction of Books and Manuscripts to be held by Freeman’s in Philadelphia on May 20.

The letter written in March 1962 concerns the naming of an American Polaris nuclear submarine in C…

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