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(Saturday, August 9, 1941, 11:00 a.m. Newfoundland Daylight Time; during World War II) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill secretly met aboard the USS Augusta today at Placentia Bay in Newfoundland to begin the four-day Atlantic Conference (codenamed Riviera), the first of nine face-to-face conferences between the two leaders during World War II.

After they shook hands, a moment of silence passed until Churchill said, “At long last, Mr. President,” to which Roosevelt replied, “Glad to have you aboard, Mr. Churchill.”

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Churchill then delivered a letter to the president from King George VI.

Roosevelt and Churchill would end their meeting — their first of 11 during the conflict — by issuing a joint policy statement on Aug. 14, 1941, that came to be known as the Atlantic Charter.

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It set out the end goals of a global war that the United States would enter four months later: no territorial aggrandizement; no territorial changes made against the wishes of the people; self-determination; restoration of self-government to those deprived of it; reduction of trade restrictions; global cooperation to secure better economic and social conditions for all; freedom from fear and want; freedom of the seas; and abandonment of the use of force, as well as disarmament of aggressor nations.

The charter’s adherents signed the Declaration by United Nations on Jan. 1, 1942, which was the basis for the modern United Nations.