George W Bush cites Winston Churchill quote that doesn't exist

At the Atlantic Council’s gala, Bush told guests Churchill said ‘America is indispensable’ – but historians say there is no record of the line

Before Donald Trump’s mangled syntax there was George W Bush, whose greatest hits included “Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?”, “Families is where our nation finds home, where wings take dream”, and the deathless “They misunderestimated me”.

But the 43rd president reminded Americans what they had been missing on Thursday when he put words in the mouth of Winston Churchill that, according to historians, the British wartime prime minister never said.

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