Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he is close to President Barack Obama. So close, in fact, that when talking about the Normandy beach where Allied forces invaded France, Brown mispronounced Omaha Beach’s name.
“So intense was the cooperation between our nations was that when Winston Churchill regularly asked to see strategists who were planning D-Day, he never knew until they arrived at 10 Downing St. whether the officer would be British, Canadian or American,” Brown said.
“And so next to Obama Beach, we join President Obama and pay particular tribute to the spectacular bravery of American soldiers who gave their lives on Omaha Beach for people whose names they never knew, for whose faces they never saw and yet people who have lived in freedom thanks to their sacrifice and valor.”
Brown continued right past the flub.
Obama did not react.
