 | George Washington Julian - 1884 - 396 pages
...repeated it." After a moment's pause, and looking up, the President said, " If Stanton said I was add fool, then I must be one, for he is nearly always...says what he means. I will step over and see him." Whether this anecdote is literally true or not, it illustrates the character of the two men. On Sunday,... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1886 - 804 pages
...repeated it." After a moment's pause, and looking up, the President said : " If Stanton said I was add fool, then I must be one, for he is nearly always...says what he means. I will step over and see him." Notwithstanding Mr. Lincoln's proverbial caution and diplomacy in dealing with difficult problems,... | |
 | 1887 - 436 pages
...fool," asked Lincoln. "He did sir," and he repeated it. After a moment's pause, the president raid : "If Stanton said I was a damned fool, then I must...reception in order that he might get the point of a story which he had forgotten. He was not frivolous, he was divinely thoughtful, but he had an unconscious... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1887 - 476 pages
...he repeated it. After a moment's pause, tbe president said : "If Stanton said I was a damned tool, then I must be one, for he is nearly always right...reception in order that he might get the point of a story which he had forgotten. He was not Irivolous, he was divinely thoughtful, but he had an unconscious... | |
 | 1909 - 646 pages
...considered a part of his greatness; namely, his power of humorous comprehension. "If Stanton," said he, "said I was a damned fool, then I must be one, for...nearly always right and generally says what he means. I must step over and see him." Nor was Stanton alone in criticism. Charles Francis Adams, as late as... | |
 | John Eleazer Remsburg - 1893 - 350 pages
...After a moment's pause, and looking up, the President said : ' If Stanton said I was add fool, then / must be one, for he is nearly always right, and generally says what he means ' " (Every-Day Life of Lincoln, pp. 483, 484). At a Cabinet meeting, in 1863, when a conflict between... | |
 | Gilbert John Clark - 1895 - 434 pages
...and repeated it.' "After a moment's pause, and looking up, the President said: 'If he said I was add fool, then I must be one, for he is nearly always...says what he means. I will step over and see him.' " — George B. Julian in Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln, p. 56. Called Lincoln "a Low, Cunning Clown."... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1887 - 588 pages
...Stanton say I was a fool 1 " asked Lincoln. " He did, sir, and repeated it." "If Stanton said I was a fool, then I must be one, for he is nearly always right and generally means what he says. I will step over and see him." Just before the surrender of General Lee, Grant... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 478 pages
...certain order from the President returned and repeated the Secretary's comment. " If," said Lincoln, " Stanton said I was a damned fool, then I must be one;...nearly always right and generally says what he means. I must step over and see him." In February one of the cartoons showed PT Barnum presenting Tom Thumb... | |
 | Norman Hapgood - 1899 - 474 pages
...certain order from the President returned and repeated the Secretary's comment. " If," said Lincoln, " Stanton said I was a damned fool, then I must be one;...nearly always right and generally says what he means. I must step over and see him." In February one of the cartoons showed PT Barnum presenting Tom Thumb... | |
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He did, sir; and repeated it." After a moment's pause, and looking up, the President said : " If Stanton said I was add fool, then I must be one, for he is nearly always right, and generally says what he means. I will step over and see him. 
