The two war-time leaders both needed to unite their own skeptical allies and across the aisle to their opponents. It was a juggling act requiring enormous political dexterity. In the days after the Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter in April…

By LEWIS E. LEHRMAN / HISTORY NEWS NETWORK March 5, 2018 Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill were great war leaders in the Civil War and World War II. But they were also politicians who had attained their high offices under…

Stamford Advocate Op-ed for February 12, 2018 “Known for their speaking abilities, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill often knew when and why to be quiet. “Solomon says there is ‘a time to keep silence,” President-elect Lincoln told the Indiana Legislature…

Stamford Advocate July 4, 2017 “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” President Abraham Lincoln declared at…

July 4 Op-Ed for Putnam County News & Recorder “Thomas Jefferson was a student of the classics, science, and history. The Virginia planter and lawyer was a scholar, a thinker, a writer — but he was no speaker. He was…

Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12, 2017 ““Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition,” declared Abraham Lincoln in announcing his first political campaign in 1832. “Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no…

Putnam County News & Record, February 12, 2018 “Churchill in his memoirs discussed his investigation of German radio beam guidance. “I gave all the necessary orders that very day in June for the existence of the [German] beam to be…

June 6, 1944 “Doubts would plague the preparations for Operation OVERLORD in World War II — the long-awaited cross-channel invasion of German-occupied Europe. “The Prime Minister and some of his chief military advisers,” recalled General Dwight D. Eisenhower, “looked upon…