Andrew Johnson - Mistress

[JMadonna]

(11-19-2017 07:12 PM)L Verge Wrote:  Call me upstanding, but I happen to think that in a situation such as the Lincoln assassination, where the safety of the VP was very important, those guards and those clerks would have reported a lady indisposed and then scrambling to make an exit. BTW: There is a member of the Surratt Society who retired after many years in the top levels of the Secret Service, beginning in the Johnson regime. He once regaled us with facts and figures as to how many assassination plots and attempts are stopped and kept out of the press. It's pretty scary.

Ok, lets say they reported a half naked woman fleeing Johnson's room (on her way to committing suicide no less). What makes you believe that Stanton would let that become part of the official record?