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Abraham Lincoln's election came at a time when the preservation of the United States as one nation was in question. Many, including the incumbent President, had little confidence in Lincoln's capacity to govern:
When ambassador to Great Britain, he was very supportive of the British Fascists, and was an admirer of Adolf Hitler. Once war with Germany was commenced, Kennedy predicted that England would lose the war and became a fascist puppet state controlled by Germany. He opposed Lend Lease and the other efforts of the Roosevelt administration to assist England to fight off the Germans. Ironically his oldest son died in a dangerous volunteermission fighting Germany in the War. Kennedy's earlier pro-German views ended his political career and was an embarassment to his sons when they entered politics.
O’Neil was one of the great ironies of the War on Terror. For years before 9-11 he had determined that al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden where major threats to America. However, the then Director of the FBI Louis Freeh had repeatedly told the White House and the national Security Council that they were not a major threat. O’Neil kept insisting that more attention be paid to al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden and was a very aggressive personality so much that his supervisors drove him out of the FBI. He then took the job of the Director of Security of the World Trade Center where he continued to warn about al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. He was killed in the 9-11 attack when his predictions came true. The O’Neil case is yet another example of the people who were the most right in our intelligence apparatus were isolated or pushed out if they tried to command the attention of the nation’s policy makers.
1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. This turned out to be one of the worst predictions in political history.
In October 2025 (ahead of ongoing trade negotiations), the Ontario Provincial Government (Canadian) produced a video ad distributed in the US using a voice-over of the above quote from a 1987 Ronald Reagan Presidential Radio Address. The ad uses five complete sentences from the five-minute weekly address, but they are spliced together out of sequence. Also, while the ad implies Reagan was against tariffs, it omitted the context that he was using the radio address to announce new tariffs imposed on Japan by his administration but that they should be seen as an unavoidable exception to his basic belief in free trade as the key to prosperity. He said, “our commitment to free trade is also a commitment to fair trade.” President Trump accused the Ontario government of producing a fraudulent ad and of attempting to influence the US Supreme Court as it prepares to hear arguments about the legality of Trump’s tariffs. As a result, the Trump administration terminated trade negotiations with Canada.
