Lincoln may not have had a strong military background, but he still ran things. He had a few businesses under his belt before becoming President. Just like Reagan. Reagan spent almost his entire non-political career running things, from his own radio sports show, to producing over 400 movies.
Sorry, not accurate.
Lincoln was an utter failure as a businessman.
Prior to his election as President, he was an attorney and one-term Congressman.
Lincoln did not have any significant background, but he was a man of many parts. He was an amateur inventer, had an analytical mind who while riding the circuit, read through Euclid’s geometry. The character in the movie aludes to this. He was a penetrating thinker, and did not pretend to know what he did not. Our dear leader has a mind like William Jennings Bryan—a mind like the River Platte, a mile-wide and an inch deep.” In many ways he is like Jack Kennedy, another celebrity president, except he lacks Kennedy’s libido—apparently—and his irony. Like Kennedy he is no intellectual, but he plays one on TV.