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Churchill's 1941 Christmas Eve Address, Revisited

On Christmas Eve 1941 -- 17 days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor -- President Franklin Roosevelt spoke to the nation from the White House, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined him, saying "we have tonight the peace of the spirit." NPR's Susan Stamberg reports.

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Susan Stamberg was one of NPR's "founding mothers" (she also coined the phrase). She joined the network at the time of its inception in 1971, and her career at NPR spanned more than five decades.