Lincoln and the secret service

[RJNorton]

Eva, school children have been writing me for 17 years on this issue. Their teachers have taught them that Lincoln created (or signed Secret Service legislation) hours before he was assassinated on April 14th. Makes for a great story, doesn't it? The students ask for proof, and I come up clueless. I simply cannot find it in any of my Lincoln books. You would think it would be in McCulloch's memoirs for April 14, 1865, but I do not see it. I have looked in many Lincoln books and cannot find he did this on the day of his assassination.

Like I said before, I am not saying it didn't happen; I am simply saying I have not been able to find the proof it did.