Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mary Todd” in chapter 15, page 432 of William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik:
...t, after all, Lincoln's political ascendancy and final elevation to the Presidency were due more to the influence of his wife than to any other person or cause.
The fact, insists this friend, that Mary Todd , by her turbulent nature and unfortunate manner, prevented her husband from
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