and sending back Mary Taft’s bonnet with new lavender ribbon. Not long after this incident, Julia, who was often in the White House as a babysitter for her little brothers, Bud and Holly, the inseparable playmates of Tad and Willie Lincoln, caught sight of Mary Lincoln...
Abraham Lincoln 16thPresident of the United States From: March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865 Vice PresidentHannibal Hamlin(1861–1865) Andrew Johnson(1865) PredecessorJames Buchanan SuccessorAndrew Johnson Former U.S. Representative fromIllinois's 7th Congressional District ...
Black visitors to the White House often remarked that Lincoln treated them with dignity and respect. Many were touched by how he shook their hands and made no acknowledgement of their race or skin color. Lincoln’s hospitality toward African Americans came to be well known at the time: As wh...
72 JOHN FINDURA DRIVING THE LINCOLN TUNNEL 1. As the final cars weave from the left lane into the right barreling towards Weehawken where Burr and Hamilton dueled and old Saint Hoboken where Sinatra was born I stay steady—steady—and gently curve along until the trees give way and the ...