White House photo during Lincoln mourning

[Jim Garrett]

Heath, that is a great picture. and a great question about is that Burke. There is a great story about Burke's predecessor. AL had asked him one morning if he would go around the corner and get a newspaper. The carriage driver, feeling it was below his noble station, responded to the President that it wasn't his job. The next morning, AL told the driver he needed to have the carriage ready first thing in the morning. This entailed brushing the horse(s), picking out their hooves, putting on the harnesses and all the accoutrements, hitching up the carriage and bringing it around to the north portico.........So the president could go around the corner and get a newspaper. Then unhitch the carriage, take off the harnesses, brush off the horses, and put them back in their stalls.