There seems to be a kind of arbitrariness about the Bush position that I think was not the case with Lincoln, even though he was accused of arbitrary arrests and all of that. and get everyone to agree - a consensus of public opinion, a consensus of working with leaders of the other party - to say that these are things that are desperately needed, we have to agree on them, and let's take these steps one at a time. The Lincolnian way would have been we're going to rally a consensus - by that I don't mean you go to the U.N. But my feeling is that he and a small group of advisers have made up their minds that these things ought to be done, and we will set the flag out there, and by golly people have got to follow us.
I find it difficult to understand George Bush. I wonder if you would compare the way your historical Lincoln sought to lead with the way President Bush has led. Mike Pride interviews David Herbert Donald, in the Concord Monitor (Oct.
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