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When Douglass and Lincoln met for the third time, in March 1865, the mood was celebratory and they considered each other friends. Douglass came to Washington to attend Lincoln's second Inauguration. The war was almost over; some 179,000 blacks were in uniform, marching triumphantly through the South; and the recently passed 13th Amendment abolished slavery throughout...
...America wasn't ready for Camelot, and Mary was cast as an out-of-touch princess who picked fabric swatches while, on the battlefield, the Republic burned. Yet perhaps no woman in American history had a better excuse for trying to boost her mood with a little retail therapy. Mary had already lost a mother and a son, and was about to lose another son, as well as her husband. She seemed to know that too, possibly as a result of her excursions into the mysterious spirit world, a popular pastime in the traumatized living rooms of the Civil...
...hour-by-hour examination of the actions of the various parties. But The Murder never reads like an illustrated police report thanks to Geary's incredible efficiency at inserting details to bring out the personalities of the players. One episode shows Mary, the President's wife, in a foul mood during a military review. On the reviewing stand she denounces a general's wife as a whore. This appalling outburst would seem to have repercussions later when 15 couples, including The Ulysses S. Grants, would decline an invitation to accompany the Lincolns to the theater on April...
...mistake?" asks Wanda. "The last time we came to the White House, we entered through the front door with those lovely pillars. Now they bring us to the servants' entrance." Inside the White House, she is still unmollified. "I wish there were something I could do to change your mood for the better," says USIA Director Charles Z. Wick. "There is," she replies. "You can send me back to New York immediately...
...insists Reagan, he will note every move Gorbachev makes, he will weigh his body language, his gestures. "I'll watch all those things," says Reagan. "His tone, his mood, his look. I've been doing that since I was a labor negotiator in California. In Geneva, when the Secretary posed his ideas, I could see that they were based on true belief and the statements that the Soviet Union put out. He really believes them. It was plain to me that I had to answer back just as earnestly about our beliefs. There is no question that he is intelligent...