Doris Kearns Goodwin says, Mary (together with Robert and yer husband) bid farewell to Willie in the Green Room before the casked was closed (and then was so overcome she coulnd't attend the East Room service two hours later).
(08-04-2013, 09:08 AM)RJNorton Wrote: Many folks came to help and sympathize.
Reading this I wonder - did Mary (ever) have a real friend, an intimate like her husband had in J. Speed? Did her sister Elizabeth maybe serve as that?