Lincoln & Stanton

[RJNorton]

(09-23-2012 05:42 PM)Jim Garrett Wrote:  As so very well covered in "Team of Rivals", AL had that inate ability to remove his emotion and set aside previous slights and see someone for their talents and abilities. It seems that by the end of the war, Stanton and AL had developed an incredibly close relationship. I think that Stanton viewed himself and AL as the team that won the war and saved the Union. Stanton may have been the most affected by AL's death, outside of the immediate family. The before mentioned prior examples show someone emotionally ill-equiped to handle such tragedies, I bet he was devastated by the tragic loss of someone who became one of his dearest friends and ally. There could be a real good article in hand for the courier on the emotional dependency Stanton may have developed for the original ape.

Dr. William Hanchett's closing sentences in The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies are as follows: "Lincoln would not have enjoyed the extravagant and pseudoreligious praise being offered in his name by so many Americans. Possibly he would have been reminded of some anecdote by which to deflate the absurdities of such exaggerations. But one suspects that if he could learn of the slush written about the suggested involvement of his secretary of war in his own death he would simply become angry."