CSPAN2 Book TV January 30, 2011
coffin, and never, i think, fully recovered. as a result, when his secretary of war married a very spirited woman named margaret eaton, the instinct in jackson that i for one admire of loyalty and a kind of almost unreasonable dedication to his friends kicked in, and when the society matrons decided that peggy easton who was a widow and daughter of a boarding houseman and probably a good deal more flirtatious than society permitted at the time, they decided that she was a lose woman and they refused to receive her even though she was the wife of his secretary of war. .. the more he p...