Maybe he shouldn’t have abandoned the oath he swore.
You're so right Lincoln learned how to steal land in Illinois when he was doing legal work for the railroads.
The mansion, which was intended as a living memorial to George Washington, was owned and constructed by the first president's adopted grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, son of John Parke Custis who himself was a child of Martha Washington by her first marriage and a ward of George Washington.Which of the Custis' abandoned any oath?