These two political forms were, I was taught, best embodied in wartime National Socialist Germany and Soviet Russia (our term for the USSR). And while National Socialist Germany and its virulence were defeated into the grave in 1945, Soviet Russia and its horrors lived on. These are the messages I carried into my letter to the President and the First Lady. In today’s milieu, Winston Churchill’s World War II speeches about what he referred to as “Christendom’s” duty to act against the Axis would be mocked. Christianity’s eventual embrace by Roman Emperor Constantine ultimately prevented the full collapse of western civilization when Rome fell.