Robert Todd Lincoln --The vitals

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That quote from Robert seems to end the debate as to where he wanted to be buried just a few years before his death. I wonder if he changed his mind before death - or did his wife circumvent his wishes when she had the final say?? I also wonder if her daughters refused to come to the final interment because they knew the Arlington burial was against their father's wishes. We'll never know unless there is correspondence out there concerning the girls and their mother.

Along the same lines, I have often wanted to ask Jason Emerson about the title he chose for his book on Robert. By "Giant in the Shadows," was he referring to Robert being a giant, though in the shadow still of his father, or did he mean that Lincoln was the giant who overshadowed his son?