When Presidents Lied or Misled U.S. to War-- Part 4: Lincoln and FDR Are Exceptions

Michael Beschloss does give two examples of American war presidents who did not follow the other three:  Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt.  He says the two waged war for higher moral purposes (saving the Union, abolishing slavery, defending democracy from Fascism).

And, they educated the public about why the country was sacrificing so many lives and so much money, though he does discuss FDR's internment camps and Lincoln's suspension of habeus corpus among other wartime abuses of power.

--Cooter