..."He did sir,*' and he repeated ft. After a tnomeiit's pause, the president 9ald : "If StHUton said ) was a damned fool, then I must be one, for he is nearly always right and generally says what he means. I*wiil step over and see him." Lincoln took a memorandum of new stories, and once ke stopped the long...

...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,...

...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,...

...asked Lincoln. "He did sir," and he repeated It. After a moment's раияе, the president paid : "If Stanton said I was a damned fool, then I must...reception in order that he might get the point of a story whijh he had forgotten. He was not frivolous, be was divinely thoughtful, but he had an unconscious...

...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...point of a story which he had forgotten. He was not Irivolous, he was divinely thoughtful, but he had an unconscious humor which gushed forth at all time*...

...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...

...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...

...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."...

...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...

...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...