BIPARTISAN
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.
Lewis E. Lehrman, co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, is author of Lincoln and Churchill: Statesman at War (Stackpole, 2018) and Churchill, Roosevelt & Company: Studies in Character and Statecraft (Stackpole, 2017).