Andrew Johnson - Mistress

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Here's how the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph described Eusebia's meeting with Johnson to get a second pardon for her husband. It's just dripping with irony:

"The President could not withstand the irresistible and fascinating influences that were brought to bear in behalf of the prisoner, and that extraordinary generosity and magnanimity of soul that prompted the first pardon induced him to grant a second, and once more was the culprit released from custody.
"It is no more than just to remark that both these pardons were in a great measure attributable to the indomitable and persevering efforts of the prisoner’s wife. She is represented as a woman of more than ordinary persuasive powers, and she left no means unemployed that a woman can employ to accomplish the release of her convicted husband. She was almost ubiquitous, restless, sleepless…it would have been impossible for even a sterner nature than that of our susceptible President to have avoided yielding to the pressure and power of so much beauty, eloquence, and matrimonial solicitude."