Robert Todd Lincoln --The vitals

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(01-29-2018 07:49 PM)Susan Higginbotham Wrote:  David Dixon Porter told another version of Lincoln refusing to see Johnson here (pg. 287):

https://archive.org/stream/incidentsanec...eston+king

Thanks - I actually read that a while ago and forgot about it. I laughed so hard when I read it because when I read Mary's interview, I figured she was exaggerating because of her own antipathy for Johnson. I think some historians have written as much. But then you see the confirmation and it does seem like Lincoln was yelling "help! get away!"