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Lincoln Against Pre-Emptive War

According to Arthur Schlesinger Jr.’s fantastic editorial in the Washington Post: “In February 1848 Rep. Abraham Lincoln explained his opposition to the Mexican War: ‘Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say [...]

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