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franklin pierce, whose only child was killed in a railroad accident when he was on the way to become president, he and his wife were depressed for a year and the country was coming apart at the seams anyway. i think there are almost no circumstances under which he could have succeeded, but he had a great career in the mexican war. he had a good career in congress. he was a good governor here. the times took him out. abraham lincoln, had he governed in the 1950s, might never have been regarded as a great president because he was gripped by crippling depression. it was only in the blood of the civil war that somehow he burned through his own feelings and absorbed the grief of the nation and let his depression go. i spent a lot of time thinking about this. i do not believe in my lifetime