George B. McClellan McClellan’s Headquarters George B. McClellan Abraham Lincoln and George B. McClellan Both President Lincoln and Prime Minister Winston Churchill had a remarkable capacity to grasp the complexity of war, but even they needed to work through subordinates…
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Rivals & the Wilderness Years
Stephen A. Douglas Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas and Their Friend John Calhoun When on May 8-9, 1940, a pivotal debate was held in the House of Commons, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston…
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Toasting Winston Churchill’s Birthday
Winston Churchill turned 69 on November 30, 1943 — only eighty years ago. The toasts at the summit conference in Teheran were interminable that night. It was the third night of the first summit attended by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, then 62, Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 61.
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Lincoln & Churchill at War
As warlords, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill accepted the duty, for cause and country, to send young men to their death. In bloody conflicts separated by eight score years, both commanders-in-chief were especially sensitive to the death of their fighting men — familiar, too, with the grief of their family and friends.
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Anglo-American Relations
Abraham Lincoln and Foreign Affairs Winning the Civil War required the United States to keep Britain out of the war. Winning World War II required Britain to bring America into the war as the dominant partner. Those challenges shaped the…
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Beaverbrook, Bracken & Browning
Orville H. Browning (Mr. Lincoln’s White House) Orville H. Browning (Mr. Lincoln & Friends) Leaders need friends. Sometimes those friends are not the ones that their other friends would have chosen for them. For Abraham Lincoln, attorneys Mark W. Delahay…
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Managing Personal Finances
Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill presented sharply different profiles in their handling of their own personal finances. Lincoln started with far fewer resources but he also suffered serious economic setbacks as a young man in New Salem, Illinois, where he…
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Courage & Security in War
Security at Mr. Lincoln’s White House “I see hundreds of strangers every day, and if anybody has the disposition to kill me he will find the opportunity,” said President Abraham Lincoln to aide John Nicolay. “To be absolutely safe I…
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William Seward & Anthony Eden
Abraham Lincoln and William H. Seward William H. Seward (Mr. Lincoln & Friends) William H. Seward (Mr. Lincoln & New York) In their direction of the Civil War and World War II, Abraham Lincoln and Winston S. Churchill had two…
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Robert and Randolph: Sons in War
Abraham Lincoln and Sons Winston and Clementine Churchill had five children – one of whom died before the age of three. Their only son Randolph served honorably and bravely in World War II as a British commando in the Balkans,…
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