Extra Credit Questions

[David Lockmiller]

Unfortunately it didn't better (nor justify) Tad's behavior. And I miss the fatherly advice to him. Lincoln was first of all Tad's father.

I thought that the facts enunciated by his father did "justify" Tad's behavior and I would surmise that the Secretary of War agreed with this assessment after the lesson taught to him by the President of the United States.

The story reads:
Stanton stood gurgling, gasping and strangling, thickly uttering a medley of sublimated profanity, while making frantic clutches in the direction of the grinning cause of his discomfiture. Right here a soldier guard stationed at the White House caught the boy and took him into the White House to change his wet clothing.

I believe that after the event that President Lincoln would have had a discussion with Tad on the subject. I do not believe anything like this ever happened again. And, if I am not mistaken, I believe that shortly thereafter the Secretary of War commissioned Tad as a young Lieutenant in the United States Army and provided him a uniform.

I rest my case, as Laurie would say.