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Abraham Lincoln understood the importance of being visually accessible, sitting for over a hundred portraits and working with numerous painters, sculptors, and illustrators.
John Glover and the men of Marblehead saved the Continental Army several times, and then helped it cross the Delaware to victory at Trenton and Princeton.
In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln embodied leading in a time of polarization, political disagreement, and differing understandings of reality.