What is your best one-word description of President Abraham Lincoln's character?

[Rob Wick]

Serving "admirably" and "creditably" are merely matters of opinion. Although I am not suggesting that he didn't, to say he did without offering specific examples of how one came to that conclusion is meaningless.

Porter's comments are based on seeing Robert, and notice that he mentions how Robert "never expected to be treated differently from any other officer on account of his being the son of the Chief Executive of the nation." Why mention this? Because people who were grumbling about how long it took for him to get into uniform and where he was placed (on the staff of the commanding general while other soldiers didn't have that option) had to be answered. I have no clue how you relate being paid to being set on the road to success.

No doubt that RTL wanted to serve, but you place far too much on his service. It no more made him successful than Abraham's battle with the mosquitoes did during the Black Hawk War.

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Rob