President Lincoln’s Five Key Decisions

A speaker talked about President Abraham Lincoln’s five key decisions that were a success during his presidency on Thursday.

Seth Bongartz, local to Manchester, Vermont, lived near the infamous Hildene, formally known as the Lincoln Family home.

Working at Hildene, Bongartz travels and delivers speeches containing information about Lincoln’s major roles during the Civil War along with his appointed presidency.

The speech created was pieced together to form a series of Lincoln’s paramount resolutions from the beginning of his election to the conclusion of the war.

Throughout the speech, Bongartz touched on Lincoln’s various decisions from his farewell speech written in 1861, to firing General George B. McClellan for his inadequacy in battle.

The five key decisions Lincoln cast throughout his presidency were derived from Lincoln’s faith in himself.

“There is no such thing as the definitive Lincoln,” said Bongartz. According to Bongartz, Lincoln was filled with parallel characteristics that make it hard to put a title on his exact category of charisma.

Without Lincoln’s ambition to preserve the union and abolish slavery, there would not be the true honorable President Lincoln we devotedly acclaim today.

“Lincoln had a purpose, logic and understanding of the true American dream,” said Bongartz.