Also annoyed was Mary Todd Lincoln , who saw Seward as a power - hungry ... Bunn replied , “ Because he thinks he is a great deal bigger than you are .
But if he was shaped by his times, he also managed at his life's fateful hour to shape them to an extent few could have foreseen. Ultimately, this is the great drama that astonishes us still, and that Abe brings to fresh and vivid life.
members into the Deep South , had fled for protection to the abolitionists Hiram Rutherford and Gideon M. Ashmore . Matson sued to retrieve the family , hiring the lawyer Usher Linder , who in turn took on Lincoln as counsel .
Merry Christmas, Mary. (a pause) MARY. (softening) Merry Christmas, Mr. Lincoln. (ABE looks at her questioningly.) Merry Christmas, Abe. (He holds out his arms. She goes to him. He embraces her.) I'm sorry.
Abe
Those arms were plenty long too - sort of freak- ish long , as if Lincoln had unfairly spliced on an extra foot of ... him - spoiled his own balance - and suddenly found he had run his neck into the crook of Abe's left arm , and Abe was ...
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