February 11, 2015 – Stamford Advocate Abraham Lincoln “saw through other men who thought all the while they were instructing or enlightening him, with a sort of dry, amused patience,” wrote Harriet Beecher Stowe, the novelist who wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” “He…
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Lehrman: The danger of underestimating Lincoln
December 4, 2014 – Greenwich Time On Dec. 8, 1941, U.S. Ambassador John “Gil” Winant dined with Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Chequers. Uncharacteristically, Churchill tuned the radio to the 9 p.m. BBC news. Together, they heard a vague report of a…
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Lehrman: U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James
December 4, 2014 – Greenwich Time On Dec. 8, 1941, U.S. Ambassador John “Gil” Winant dined with Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Chequers. Uncharacteristically, Churchill tuned the radio to the 9 p.m. BBC news. Together, they heard a vague report of a…
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Winston’s Declaration
Seventy years ago, the landing of Allied soldiers continued on Normandy’s beaches – four weeks after the initial D-Day landings on the French coast.
Lincoln, Churchill & D-Day
President Abraham Lincoln, a student of Shakespeare’s tragedies and histories, surely could have understood, in the overtures of Henry V, what transpired 80 years later in the invasion of Normandy.
Churchill and Lincoln: Men of Principle; Men of Ideas
By Lewis E. Lehrman In February 1943, now 68 years of age, Winston Churchill flew to Algiers after meetings in Turkey and Egypt. He slept in a rigged up bunk in the hold of his very cold airplane (there were…
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Churchill and Lincoln: Glow Worms Walking a Tightrope
As young men, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill found themselves awkward among women. For much of his life, Churchill’s female confidante, in addition to his wife, was Violet Bonham Carter. She was an accomplished politician and the daughter of Lord Herbert H. Asquith, British prime minister from 1908 to 1916.
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Revenge & Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction Mr. Lincoln and Reconstruction President Abraham Lincoln needed to mobilize the North to fight the Civil War. To fight the Second World War, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill needed to mobilize his own country, the Dominion,…
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Peace & Unconditional Surrender
Abraham Lincoln and Peace Hampton Roads Conference Abraham Lincoln and Alexander H. Stephens Francis P. Blair, Sr. Horace Greeley James Jaquess In February 1862 just before the surrender of Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, Union General Ulysses S. Grant…
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Democracy, Liberty & the Legislature
Members of Congress Visitors from Congress Abraham Lincoln and Republican Radicals Abraham Lincoln’s Values and Philosophy “I leave you,” concluded Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln at a Chicago campaign rally in July 1858, “hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn…
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