CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings April 23, 2014
He claimed that lincoln had never loved mary todd lincoln. The love of his life had been a young woman named ann rutledge to die when lincoln was off in springfield or actually the old state capital for his first term in the legislature and that he never got over the loss. He claimed that lincoln had syphilis. It was not clear why this was helpful or helping to set, you know he tried to make him a very earthy figure. The family was absolutely furious. They elected these interviews and thought, there is no possible way that people could remember with any precision somebody whom they had no expe...