Lincoln & Churchill: Statesmen at War

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Wagner, Stephen. "Presidents and the Paranormal". About.com. Archived from the original on 2005-10-17 . Retrieved 2008-05-04. Wikipedia offers avari­a­tion of Churchill meet­ing Lin­coln in its entry on Lincoln’s ghost.The accom­pa­ny­ing foot­note ref­er­encesMar­jorie B. Gar­ber, Pro­fil­ing Shake­speare, Rout­ledge, 2008: Lincoln and Churchill demonstrated that in war, liquor is neither a certain asset nor a certain impediment to effective leadership. Good health, however, a requirement. For Further Reference

Winston Churchill in the Second World War began with far greater knowledge of military affairs than Lincoln would ever possess. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Mr. Lehrman received his B.A. from Yale and his M.A. in History from Harvard. He was a Carnegie Teaching Fellow in History at Yale and was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in History at Harvard. Mr. Lehrman is widely known for his run for Governor of New York in 1982. In 1983, Mr. Lehrman was the Cardinal Cooke honoree of the Archdiocese of New York for his early work developing scholarships for New York inner-city schools. He has been a trustee of the American Enterprise Institute, the Morgan Library, the Manhattan Institute and the Heritage Foundation. He is a former Chairman of the Committee on Humanities of the Yale University Council. The last reported sighting of Lincoln's ghost was in the early 1980s, when Tony Savoy, White House operations foreman, came into the White House and saw Lincoln sitting in a chair at the top of some stairs. [3] Willie Lincoln died in the White House during his father's presidency. Eighty years apart, two of the gravest conflicts engaging the English-speaking peoples came to an end. So too did two American presidencies. On April 14, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theater. On April 12, 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a stroke at Warm Springs, Georgia. Unlike Britain, the United States held regular elections during war. Newly elected Vice President Andrew Johnson succeeded Lincoln on April 15, 1865. Newly elected Vice President Harry Truman immediately succeeded Roosevelt.

a b c d Ogden, Tom. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Ghosts and Hauntings. New York: Alpha Books, 1999. ISBN 0-02-863659-7 When the others were gone, my father alluded to their conversation of the day before. ‘You thought you might frame an argument for the other side?’ Mr. Lincoln smiled and shook his head. ‘I found I could not make an argument that would satisfy my own mind,’ he said, ‘and that proved to me your ground was the right one.’ Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Volume VI, Finest Hour, 1939–1941 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983), p. 861.

Was Churchill, on one of his vis­its to the White House, spooked by the ghost of Abra­ham Lin­coln? Ever afan of Things That Go Bump in the Night, Iwas intrigued to receive this question. The presidency of Abraham Lincoln began and ended in a civil war of national survival. The first prime ministership of Winston S. Churchill began and ended in a global war of national survival. Churchill had inherited his war. Lincoln’s war had not yet begun when he took office. Many generals in America and Britain scoffed at the military strategy and tactics of Lincoln and Churchill. Both proved essentially sound in their strategy of deploying an anaconda-like armed embrace of the enemy to squeeze the life from it. Subordinates would chafe at their suggestions. Developing a Strategy Like Lincoln, Churchill was a glutton for military information. Where Lincoln had his telegraph office to learn daily the latest from the war front, Churchill maintained his map room in the Annexe to 10 Downing Street. Historian John Keegan wrote of Churchill’s leadership role in the War: “If there is any other war leader with whom a ready comparison suggests itself, it is Abraham Lincoln. Like Lincoln, Churchill worked throughout the war at the seat of government; like Lincoln, he embroiled himself throughout the conflict in the processes of representative democracy; like Lincoln, he never rested in his search for generals who could deliver victory, peremptorily discarding those who failed him; like Lincoln, he clung to no doctrinaire principles of strategy, preferring to trust in a few broad policies that he believed best served the long-term interests of the people and the alliance of states he represented.” 11 This is a wonderful book for me and almost 5 stars. The reason is I rate Lincoln as one of the two top humans who have ever lived, and Churchill pretty near that level as well.

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Corelli Barnett, The Lords of War: Supreme Leadership from Lincoln to Churchill (London: Praetorian Press, 2012), p. 11. This reminds me of one or two little rhythmic shots I often fired at him in his melancholy moods, and it was a kind of nonsense that he always keenly relished. One was a parody on “Life on the Ocean Wave.”