Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [559]
“it was unlawful…rid of thinking!”: Ibid., pp. 78 (first quote), 84 (second and third quotes).
“no more pervasive…in America”: Blight, Frederick Douglass’ Civil War, p. 3.
“It has taught…the Presidency”: Douglass’ Monthly (December 1860).
“no lawful power…Pierces and Buchanans”: Douglass’ Monthly (April 1861).
White House family quarters: William Seale, The President’s House: A History, Vol. I (Washington, D.C.: White House Historical Association/National Geographic Society, 1986) pp. 366, 368, 377, 379–80, illustration 41.
“the grounds…closets”: WHS to home, March 16, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 530.
hundreds of people…securing a job: Seward, Reminiscences of a War-Time Statesman and Diplomat, p. 147; William O. Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln’s Secretary, ed. Michael Burlingame (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000), p. 5.
“from Edward…that he was handsome”: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, pp. 47, 48.
memorizing railroad timetables…“perfect precision”: John Hay, “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century 41 (November 1890), p. 35.
Tad…“worry of the household”: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, pp. 48–49.
A speech impediment: Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, p. 8; Hay, “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century (1890), p. 35.
“a very bad…discipline”: NYTrib, July 17, 1871.
The boys harried the staff: Stoddard, Inside the White House in War Times, pp. 26–27; NYTrib, July 17, 1871; Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, pp. 102–06.
“If there was…a good time”: Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, p. 107.
Seward had proposed: Grimsley, “Six Months in the White House,” JISHS, p. 49.
“For over two hours…at the windows”: JGN to TB, March 10, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“well dressed…social courtesy”: Entry for March 8, 1861, reel 76, Charles Francis Adams diary.
“was voted by…ever known here”: JGN to TB, March 10, 1861, container 2, Nicolay Papers.
“This is certainly…she has been here”: MTL to Hannah Shearer, March [28, 1861], in Turner and Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln, p. 82.
“light and capricious”…morning schedule: Hay, “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century (1890), p. 34.
white marble fireplace…a panorama: Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 416.
description of the Cabinet Room: Seale, The President’s House, Vol. I, pp. 364, 367; Isaac Arnold, quoted in Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 416.
“the very first…in his hands”: Entry for July 3, 1861, in Browning, The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning, Vol. I, p. 476.
“that their provisions…their relief”: Memorandum, July 3, 1861, quoted in John G. Nicolay, With Lincoln in the White House: Letters, Memoranda, and Other Writings of John G. Nicolay, 1860–1865, ed. Michael Burlingame (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), p. 47.
“I now see…surrender”: Joseph Holt and Winfield Scott to AL, March 5, 1861, Lincoln Papers.
to “reclaim…yourselves the aggressors”: AL, “First Inaugural Address—First Edition and Revisions,” January 1861, in CW, IV, p. 254 (first and second quotes); AL, “First Inaugural Address—Final Text,” March 4, 1861, in ibid., p. 271 (third and fourth quotes).
“to eat or sleep”: AL, quoted in Villard, Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. I, p. 156.
“he had literally…I must see them”: Hay, “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” Century (1890), pp. 34, 33.
“has no conception…security now”: Entry for March 10, 1861, Charles Francis Adams diary, reel 76.
“owes a higher…office-hunters”: NYT, April 4, 1861.
“The President proposes…upon him most”: WHS to home, March 16, 1861, quoted in Seward, Seward at Washington…1846–1861, p. 530.
“long-skirted…around his waist”: Browne, The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, p. 418.
his large leather Bible…“inaudible music”: Bayne, Tad Lincoln’s Father, pp. 32–33.
Lincoln penned a note: AL to Winfield