TRUTH ABOUT CHURCHILL
Even in his last years Winston Churchill liked to drop in at the House of Commons from time to time. One day when he was helped down the aisle to his seat by two aides, a couple of young M. P.s nearby started murmuring. “You know, I don’t think he should come in any more,” said one. “He’s getting so dottery.” The other whispered, “Yes, and they say he’s even getting a bit soft in the upper story.” Churchill slowly turned in his seat and rasped, “They also say that he’s getting hard of hearing. “Well, gentlemen, he continued, “I may be old, but I’m still hearing things, and some of the things I don’t like . . . By James C. Humes, from Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous, 1978, p. 23
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