I would ask him what he would do differently if he could go back and do it all again. I would want to know if he could learn from his mistakes and prepare the country better for tough times ahead.
I would ask him do you like to think about you as president of America or a citizen of America? I wanted to learn from him that a general citizen think about his country very much or a president.
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.