No Stepford wife, Mary Lincoln once loudly declared after husband's oration, "The worst speech I ever listened to!"pic.twitter.com/ytsC2VERz3
Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.
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No Stepford wife, Mary Lincoln once loudly declared after husband's oration, "The worst speech I ever listened to!"pic.twitter.com/ytsC2VERz3
@BeschlossDC Ah, but most of the other speeches Mary Lincoln heard were by Stephen A. Douglas. Might affect her judgement.
@nprscottsimon Mary may still have had a weakness for Stephen Douglas's oratory since, as you know, she had dated him before Lincoln.
@BeschlossDC My late stepfather, Lincoln bookseller, thought Mary married Abe because he made her laugh (unlike Douglas).
@nprscottsimon Referring to Ralph Newman, eminent Lincoln scholar. I think he was right, altho sadly she laughed less with passage of time.
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