Mary Todd Lincoln's faux pas (plural), worse, and much worse

[Eva Elisabeth]

David, maybe Mary didn't read it as it was the only newspaper with this story and this was peanuts in the end? I think like many VIPs she was quite used to such stories and sure didn't expect anyone would pay that much attention to it (least of all 147 years later) and take it as seriously you did to consider it worth the stressful procedure of a trail (she had enough problems to deal with at that time).

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(07-05-2014 10:52 AM)David Lockmiller Wrote:  A newspaper, especially a major newspaper, must know how important it is to its own long-term existence that it print the truth and only the truth. People do not read newspapers for fictional accounts of history.

David, just think of the Wilma Frances Minor letters (published as alleged Lincoln correspondance):
http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archiv...al/304449/