Robert Todd Lincoln --The vitals

[kerry]

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!"