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This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I am Gaius with Germanicus.

We're in Londinium it's winter time, the centurians and their

families have gone home, it's dark, we're sitting with candles, we have a cup of wine and we're going

to the theater. However, it entertains us to seek lessons

learn from when the United States, which fences an empire, like the Roman Empire, it's not, but that's all right.

It flatters the U.S. to think of itself that way.

How do you conduct an election in wartime? And Germanicus

you've identified two elections that are fraught with example. One is 1864, Abraham Lincoln believing he was going to be

defeated, believing that McClellan, the former head of the Army of the Potomac running as a Democrat was going to defeat him.

And he wrote a letter in August of 1864 saying, as, I paraphrase as what as likely as it is that I will be

defeated it's necessary for the new president to become immediately into

authority in order to negotiate with the Confederacy to hold together what we have.

Because there would be that period all the way to March that would be extremely difficult to manage without

a certainty of who's in the White House.

Following that, there were events, however, that made it possible to succeed. We know that Lincoln making some

important political adjustments such as no longer being just a Republican

candidate, he was a national candidate and he brought in. He

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