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Surviving War; Declining Health

Abraham Lincoln’s Health War is hell. War is hell on leaders’s health. Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill were firemen who were struggling to put out the fires of domestic and international strife. War was hell for Lincoln and Churchill –

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Telling Stories in Wartime

Abraham Lincoln’s Stories and Humor Mr. Lincoln’s Stories “They say I tell a great many stories,” said President Lincoln in 1864. “I reckon I do, but I have found in the course of a long experience that common people take

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Lincoln, Churchill & Shakespeare

Abraham Lincoln and Literature In 1849, Abraham Lincoln sought to be federal commissioner of lands. He lost that post and was offered the territorial governorship of Oregon as a consolation prize. Under the influence of his wife Mary, Lincoln turned

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Lincoln, Churchill & Faith in Wartime

Abraham Lincoln’s Faith Abraham Lincoln and the Bible Abraham Lincoln and Winston S. Churchill were not conventional men.  Their religious faith were not necessarily conventional Christian faiths.  Neither were conventional church goers but they certainly had more than a conventional

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Food for Leaders

Abraham Lincoln’s Health Thomas Hall Shastid, a young Lincoln contemporary, wrote that Lincoln showed up at his family home one evening as the family anxiously awaited a meal of fresh-killed quails: “Abe sat down at their hearty invitation in the

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The Faces of Leadership

Abraham Lincoln’s Beautiful Face President Lincoln’s Moods Abraham Lincoln’s Personality The most enduring photo of Winston Churchill from World War II was a scowling portrait of the prime minister in a three-piece suit. The scowl was produced when the photographer

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Newspapers & War Leaders

Abraham Lincoln and Journalists Abraham Lincoln began his political life as an avid newspaper reader – using his position as a postmaster in rural Illinois to read all the papers that came through his hands. When Lincoln became president in

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Churchill and Lincoln – Never Give Up

“Do not let us speak of darker days: let us speak rather of sterner days.”

Thus spoke Winston Churchill to the students of Harrow School on October 29, 1941. The British prime minister visited the school, and made this speech, fewer than six weeks before the United States would enter World War II. Churchill spoke only one year after Britain had victoriously defended itself against the relentless Luftwaffe bombing of London. But for English bravery, the Battle of Britain could have ended the war before America joined it.

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Churchill and Lincoln: Guardians of Democracy

On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War. Four score years later in April 1945, the Allied coalition in Europe effectively strangled the Nazi war machine. German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30. A week later on May 7, 1945, German military authorities surrendered to the Allies at Rheims, France.

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Winston Churchill and the Fourth of July

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”

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