[DiogenesLamp]

Lincoln did not enforce the law as written. He suspended habeas corpus and locked people up willy nilly for simply criticizing him. In his process of seizing property from southern people, he did not give them "due process" but merely applied a blanket prejudice of "guilty" to everyone.

Lincoln even signed an arrest warrant for the chief justice of the supreme court, but thankfully his federal marshal, body guard and friend, chose not to enforce it.

Lincoln was the closest thing to a dictator this nation has ever seen.

Eisenhower enforced a court decision with which he did not agree. Lincoln simply ignored court decisions with which he disagreed, and then tried to arrest a judge that gave him a court decision with which he disagreed.

Eisenhower was nothing like Lincoln.

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Lincoln did what he had to do to save the union and keep the capital from being surrounded and overrun. But I was talking about the steps secessionist feared he would take -- steps which were not so different from what Eisenhower and other Republicans took to break up the solid South.

It's true that Ike didn't wholly support the desegregation decisions. He didn't even talk much about them for three years, but when Governor Faubus directly challenged federal authority, Ike called out the National Guard. In this too, he was following in Lincoln's footsteps. People at the time -- both those who supported him and those who didnt-- recognized that.