06.16.2009 9:16 am
Luetkemeyer secures recognition for site of Churchill speech
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
As a freshman congressman in the minority party, mid-Missouri Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer does not have an abundance of choices in passing legislation with his name on it.
But Luetkemeyer does have this this: The site of Winston Churchill’s famous “Iron Curtain” speech in his district. The renowned British statesman coined the term in 1946 at a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, where a monument and memorial to the former Prime Minister still stands.
On Monday, Luetkemeyer announced that he had convinced Congress to name the Fulton Churchill Memorial as “America’s National Churchill Museum.”
Does that change anything for the Central Missouri landmark?
Probably not much — but it is a small victory for Fulton and its new congressman.
