Leadership Duties Quotes
In a democracy, some politicians come to power in good or average times. Others, come to power with the nation in extremis. Churchill. Privately confided to a friend that he was not exactly happy. However, he had served as Prime Minister before and under the even more difficult conditions of WWII. In American, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Barack Obama all came to power when the nation was in great difficulty. In Lincoln’s case, there was secession and rebellion. With FDR it was the Great Depression. In Obama’s case, there were two wars and the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression, yet all 3 men did not seem to have Churchill’s misgivings.
