EDITORIAL Winston Churchill, right, and President Roosevelt seen here in the conference room at Yalta after the first meeting there of the three-power conference, February 1945, shortly before the president's death. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, 1874 ??" 1965. British politician, army officer, writer and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 ??"1945, aka FDR. American politician and the 32nd president of the United States of America.