1.   Another wartime president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, encouraged internal competition and often pitted advisers against one another in search of the best options.

2.   Clinton now faces the sort of multi-front combat that ordinarily challenges only wartime presidents.

3.   Democrats counter that history is on their side -- that even popular wartime presidents see their party suffer in off-years.

4.   It also brought attention to the sensitive election-year role of a wartime president whose popularity has soared in part because he has appeared above the political fray.

5.   Over one shoulder was the Robert Berks bust of Lincoln, over the other the Jo Davidson bust of FDR, both castings evoking memories of great wartime presidents.

6.   Some wartime presidents broadened their Cabinets to include members of the opposition.

7.   The wartime president toiled so fervently to destroy fascism that his health failed and he died just before the end of the war.

8.   The vote split along ethnic lines, with the Muslims backing their embittered wartime president, Alija Izetbegovic, and the Croats electing Kresimir Zubak, another hard-liner.

9.   Thus far, Bush has been a strong, resourceful wartime president.

10.   As his father before him, Bush has been transformed into a wartime president by events beyond his control.