A historian once remarked, "As a politician, Abraham Lincoln was like a great poker player who was dealt a bad hand but still managed to win the pot." Indeed, the Civil War could and perhaps even should have destroyed this country. Abraham Lincoln's greatest fear was seeing the union fall apart, with the United States becoming "eight or nine squablling nations, the laughing stock of the world." His genius was not, as the mythweavers have told us, his moral vision and clear view of the task at hand. Rather, it was his sheer dogedness and political skill, his refusal to allow the myriad forces around him to give in to the inevitable. Abraham Lincoln is our greatest president because he was our most effective politician. And one of his skills
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