In fact, he inducted those very — by all accounts, bitter — men into his cabinet. Goodwin shows how Lincoln carried them along by his shrewdness in reading the public mood and his self-honesty in prioritising the requirements of his office.
As for the quote Musharraf used in his TV address, it comes from Lincoln’s famous “if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong” letter justifying the recruitment of slaves as soldiers in the army. General Musharraf’s own bestselling memoir, In the Line of Fire, had long passages on Ataturk. May we expect the sequel to clarify the Lincoln shift?
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