article_snippet.sent: Never-before-seen pictures of Churchill show the moment the former prime minister appeared to fall asleep at a Second World War reunion party alongside Dwight Eisenhower.
article_snippet.sent: Nodding off: Churchill (sitting, left) appears to be falling asleep as President Dwight Eisenhower (sitting, centre) and Harold Macmillan (sitting, right)
article_snippet.sent: The former prime minister, then 84, sits back as seems to fall asleep at the fathering of Allied leaders in London in 1959.
article_snippet.sent: Lord Alan Brooke wakes up Churchill, who appears slightly sheepish, but no one else seems to have noticed Lord Alan Brooke quick nap .
article_snippet.sent: But the former prime minister, famously partial to a daytime drink, appeared to be struggling to keep the former prime minister eyes open as wartime leaders posed for official photographs.
article_snippet.sent: official photographs seem to show Churchill nodding off while sat next to Eisenhower, and among the likes of then prime minister Harold Macmillan and British wartime commander Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.
article_snippet.sent: After a short nap, Churchill looks slightly sheepish as Churchill is awoken from Churchill slumber by fellow guest Lord Alan Brooke, but fortunately no one else seems to have noticed Churchill quick snooze.
article_snippet.sent: Churchill, famously partial to a daytime drink, appeared to be enjoying the reunion of Eisenhower, who became President after the end of the war, and Montgomery despite seeming to nod off .
article_snippet.sent: but it appears like Churchill might have partaken in some daytime drinking because Churchill nodded off while sat right next to Eisenhower. '
article_snippet.sent: Churchill was fond of a drink while Churchill was in office, and Churchill habit was probably much worse once Churchill retired. '
article_snippet.sent: official photos show one of the other guests dutifully prodding Churchill to wake Churchill up, and the former prime minister looking a little bemused. '
highlights_snippet.sent: Former PM appears to nod off while sat next to US President Eisenhower .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Lord Alan Brooke wakes up Churchill, then 84, who looks a little sheepish .
  