No president can give a country success. The most they can do is help the country to be sensible in its spending and relations with foreign countries, and choose administrators who are competent and can run their departments well. None of them are wunderkind.
None can control world events.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.