63 6 Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower: Soldier and President (New York, NY: Touchstone, 1990), 313-14; Kenneth S. Davis, FDR the War President: 19401943 (New York, NY: Random House, 2000), 592-93, 603-06; and Winston S. Churchill, World War II: The Hinge of Fate (Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), 795, 797. 7 Davis, 606-07. 8 See David McCullough, Truman (New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1992); Margaret Truman, Harry S. Truman (New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1973), 334; Ambrose, Eisenhower, 313-14; 493; and Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum, and Boyhood Home, National Archives, Online Documents, “Camp David,” accessed September 14, 2022, https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/camp-david. See also Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Robert T. Hartmann Files, Box 10, folder “Camp David—History,” accessed, September 14, 2022, https://www. fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0011/1683344.pdf . 9 Peter G. Bourne, Jimmy Carter: A Comprehensive Biography from Plains to Postpresidency (New York, NY: A Lisa Drew Book/Scribner, 1997), 403-11, 436, 437, 441; Jimmy Carter, Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President (Toronto, ON: Bantam Books, 1983), 319ff. 10 Ronald C. White, A. Lincoln: A Biography (New York, NY: Random House, 2009), 508, 509. See also, Joshua Shenk, Lincoln’s Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005). 11 Matthew Pinkster, Lincoln’s Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldier’s Home (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003), 52-53, 56; and George B. McClellan to Abraham Lincoln, September 5, 1862, in The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan: Selected Correspondence, 1860-1865, Stephen W. Sears, ed. (New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1989), 435. 12 John Hay, Inside the White House: The Complete Civil War Diary of John Hay, Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger eds. (Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997), 194. See also Joshua Zeitz, Lincoln’s Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln’s Image (New York, NY: Viking Press, 2014), 95-96. This is just a small sample of similar types of occasions of Lincoln’s enjoyment of humor as a sanctuary. LEADERS, LEADERSHIP, AND “SANCTUARY”: A FOCUS ON SIX U.S. PRESIDENTS AND THE PROBLEM OF REST
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