[Thank you, Mark Mulligan of Thriving, via LinkedIn. The Internet claims it is apocryphal, but it has the ring of truth, and based on my experience, is probably true of her effect on him.]
One day, the Churchill couple walked through a posh neighborhood in London. People greeted and exchanged words with the Prime Minister. A street sweeper, on the other hand, greeted Mrs. Churchill in particular, and the two stayed aside for a while in a familiar conversation.
Churchill then asked his wife what she had had to discuss with a street sweeper for so long. “Ah... he was in love with me a long time ago,” she said.
Churchill smiled and said, "You see, if you had married him, you would be the wife of a street sweeper today."
Mrs. Churchill looked at her husband in amazement and said the legendary words, “But no Darling, if I had married him, he would be Prime Minister today.”
I heard that in the '90s about Bill and Hillary Clinton in motorcade stopping for gas in Illinois and meeting Hillary's ex-boyfriend, the pump jockey.
Posted by: Robert E Malchman | May 10, 2021 at 09:42 AM