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To: Verginius Rufus

IIRC correctly after someone complained to Lincoln that Grant was a lush, Lincoln responded by saying that he would send a case of whatever Grant was having to his other generals.


30 posted on 12/13/2013 11:42:54 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian

That’s the traditional story of what Lincoln supposedly said. It seems to me I heard some scholar on C-SPAN recently saying Lincoln didn’t really say it but someone later reported it to Lincoln and he thought it was a good one (the kind of thing he would have said if he had thought of it).


35 posted on 12/13/2013 3:21:20 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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