April 14, 2015 – Stamford Advocate At Hyde Park, New York, on April 15, 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was laid to rest at his beloved family home. On the very same day 80 years earlier in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln breathed…
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The Root of the Matter
February 12, 2015 – Putnam County News & Recorder Winston Churchill wrote and spoke millions of words, but he admired those who could quickly get to the essence of an argument. He once said: “Anything worthwhile can be put on one side…
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Lincoln’s Patience and Ambition
February 12, 2015 – Harrisburg Patriot News When 23-year-old Abraham Lincoln won election as his militia company captain in the Black Hawk War, the new officer told a friend: “I’ll be damned, Bill, but I’ve beat him!” Preparing to run for president…
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Lehrman: The danger of underestimating Lincoln
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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