Robert Todd Lincoln --The vitals

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BTW - I remember this site you might like to check out, Laurie, if you haven't already:
http://strangeside.com/lincolns-chiropod...-zacharie/

Thanks for this link, Eva. I didn't realize that Zacharie played such an elevated role in the Lincoln administration - lots more, it appears, than just shaving off corns and calluses. Wouldn't you love to have been a fly on the wall when he met with Judah Benjamin? Wonder if the two made contact in England after the war...

Also, the note about the peace plan that he supposedly worked on earlier in the war with the Confederacy being given the opportunity to conquer Mexico isn't far-fetched. The Knights of the Golden Circle had that in mind for the Southern planters years before the Civil War even started.

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Moving back to Robert, here's an interesting tidbit on his Harvard days from that wonderful site, Abraham Lincoln Online: http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/linc...arvard.htm