What evidences are there to support that Lincoln was acting consciously with reference to a consistent change process, rather than simply reacting to the immediate situation?

The evidence that Lincoln was acting consciously in reference to a consistent change process is what he realized 1863, in which he faced two hard challenges. One was having control over the army and the other was to gain trust from public opinion or people.

He took conscious of both challenges, and got rid of old believes that was less important, and started working in a different new path with a better understanding and decisions.

This choices he took made him one the greatest leaders in the world

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The evidence that Lincoln was acting in awareness with reference to a consistent change in process rather than simply reacting to an immediate situation is what Lincoln became aware of in the early 1863, that he had two challenges. one was the retaining control over the Army while the other was having trust of the public opinion.

Both the challenges were a constant  process of change which were carefully taken. In order to face this task he got rid of his old believes that no longer useful and he started leading in a completely different way way taking careful consistent decisions.

By looking back to history in the past, these were the two bold choices which were made in the summer of 1863, which had helped him to be The President of United States and one of the greatest leaders of the world.

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