Should Mary have received Abraham's salary?

[RJNorton]

(01-28-2016 10:04 AM)L Verge Wrote:  Since women did not have the right to vote in 1865, there was no chance one would get Cabinet status or diplomatic appointments.

I second Laurie. According to Jean Baker even Mary Lincoln would probably not have approved of this. She writes, "Impatient with what she (Mary) considered silly and undereducated females, she could not accept the other extreme: intellectual reformers working for women's rights." Baker also writes "...suffragists gained no respect from her (Mary); she believed them unwomanly creatures. She had no interest in obtaining the vote, intending instead to influence her husband."