When he needed an organizer to prepare his military, he found George Catlett Marshall, who managed Nimitz and MacArthur, Eisenhower and Patton to win the War. And when he needed a weapon, he found a single-minded son of a bitch, Major General Leslie Groves, who herded his scientists into developing a working atomic bomb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lincoln<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Abraham Lincoln was a War President. He made it clear from before the first shots at Ft. Sumter that there was only one condition for ending the War, reaffirmation of the Union. Slavery was not the issue, nor was \u201cNorthern aggression\u201d. Stay in the Union, and almost anything else was possible. Leave the Union, and War was the only answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lincoln made it clear that the Union was more important than even the law. Ask the Maryland legislators who found themselves locked away without charges in Ft. McHenry, the same symbol of Star Spangled Banner fame. It\u2019s a little like Ohio\u2019s Governor Mike DeWine, who knew that a statewide election would put Ohioans in greater danger. So he cancelled the election, and when a court ordered it back on, he had his Director of Public Health declare it a public hazard, and shut it back down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lincoln had a \u201cteam of rivals\u201d as his cabinet, competitive and absolutely competent. But while it took him more than a year to begin to find that same competence in his military leadership, ultimately the people stood with him as he searched for General Grant. It was his rhetoric, his language that spoke to the American people, raising them to a willingness to defend, serve, and become \u201c\u2026the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than Words<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
We know what a \u201cWar President\u201d looks like. Even George W Bush found his place, as he stood at the side of first responders at \u201cground zero\u201d and said, \u201cI can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people — and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!\u201d Unfortunately he squandered that respect in an unnecessary War in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A War President takes the lead. He doesn\u2019t equivocate about whether the state or federal government is in charge, or whether getting ventilator machines out to the crisis areas is some \u201cmail clerk\u2019s\u201d job. A War President uses the media to get out the information he needs people to have. He doesn\u2019t spend his time disparaging them for \u201cnasty questions\u201d or claims they are all \u201cfake\u201d news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And a War President finds a Grant or a Marshall or a Groves to spearhead an American effort to deal with crisis. Instead, this President put his Vice President in charge, and then steps in front of him to take credit for any positive results. And finally, a War President recognizes that trust and truth are ultimately what creates confidence and a willingness to sacrifice, not made up results or untested cures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Why should the kids on spring break in Florida believe what our government is saying? Our current \u201cWar President\u201d has spent three and a half years trying to convince them that the media constantly lies, while lying himself over 16,400 times since his inauguration. How does anyone trust or depend on that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When our President claims it\u2019s like being in a War, what he really wants is the laurels of victory that come with being a War President.\u00a0\u00a0What he doesn\u2019t realize is that those laurels aren\u2019t simply bestowed by the office and the situation.\u00a0\u00a0They are won by the leader\u2019s hard earned actions and earned respect.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That hasn\u2019t happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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