(01-03-2015, 03:17 PM)RJNorton Wrote: It's been awhile since I read it, but I recall he referred to Lincoln's office as the Oval Office. There was no Oval Office at that time.
http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/phot...D=3&ID=217
He also describes Lewis Powell smashing Fanny Seward hard in the face with his fist and knocking her cold. All I can say is that Fanny must have been steel plated. A frail, tiny young woman like her would have been dead as Lincoln if that had truly happened!
I don't remember reading about the 1860's "Oval Office". I must have blocked it from memory!