Through Five Administrations

[LincolnToddFan]

(08-08-2014 07:20 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  Toia, I have Winkler's book and just re-read the Parker pages. You nailed it IMO. I noticed one thing Winkler "conveniently" left out - Mary also signed a draft exemption for another of the White House policemen. His name was Joseph Sheldon. She also "detailed" him for White House duty and exempted him from the draft. Thus, it's not only Parker who received this from Mary (as Winkler implies). Mary was simply doing a favor for these White House police officers, and it had nothing to do with Parker's April 14th assignment.

Roger,

Winkler also conveniently does not mention the state of complete emotional and physical collapse Mary went into after the tragedy. The murder of her husband removed the one person in her life who ever understood and protected her. She had literally everything to lose if he was dead...and lose everything she did.

Winkler's resentment that his precious Ann Rutledge did not live to marry AL caused him to make the most vicious, irrational and irresponsible claim about Mary Todd Lincoln that I have ever read. I hope Mary will give him a nice sock in the jaw when she encounters him on the Other Side!