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The relationship between Churchill and Eisenhower—here in Tunisia on Christmas Day 1943—was often difficult and tumultuous, but ultimately amicable. Eisenhower frequently opposed Churchill’s military calculations, leaving the prime minister bitter. Yet Churchilll had the capacity to—as biographers Manchester and Reid put it—“maintain numerous (and often conflicting) opinions about a man.” (Mirrorpix/Getty Images)