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" This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration ; as he... "
Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989 - Page 96
by Michael R. Beschloss - 2007 - 400 pages
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Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-time Memories: Including ..., Volume 1

Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 704 pages
...as follows:10 9 Abraham Lincoln, A History, Vol. IX., p. 250. "Executive Mansion, August 23rd, 1864. "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the Presidentelect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration...
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Abraham Lincoln

Wilbur Fisk Gordy - 1917 - 296 pages
...wrote upon a piece of paper the following memorandum: "EXECUTIVE MANSION, "WASHINGTON, August 23, 1864. "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...will not be reelected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President-elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration,...
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Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln, and War-time Memories: Including ..., Volume 1

Ervin S. Chapman - 1917 - 350 pages
...p. 2-0 18 Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, VoL X., p. 303. "Executive Mansion, August 23rd, 1864. "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the Presidentelect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration...
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Abraham Lincoln

Godfrey Rathbone Benson Baron Charnwood - 1917 - 508 pages
...reminded his ministers of how they had endorsed it unread, and he read it them. Its contents ran thus : " This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President-elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration,...
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Ulysses S. Grant

Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...he had each member of his Cabinet endorse unread and which remained unopened till November 11: — "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...will not be ree'lected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration;...
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The Voice of Lincoln

Reuben M. Wanamaker - 1918 - 384 pages
...and folding it up, laid it away. That paper read : " EXECUTIVE MANSION " WASHINGTON, August 23, 1864. "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration;...
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Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Letters

Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 pages
...so far lost the confidence of the people that he could not be chosen again to the Executive office : This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be reflected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect as to save the Union between...
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Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Volume 5

Lyon Gardiner Tyler - 1924 - 340 pages
...him to pen a letter to his cabinet like the following: "Executive Mansion, Washington, Aug. 23, 1864. This morning as for some days past it seems exceedingly...be my duty to Co-operate with the President elect, so as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration, as he will have secured his election...
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My Generation: An Autobiographical Interpretation

William Jewett Tucker - 1919 - 530 pages
...doubted the possibility of his reelection that he wrote the now well-known but then private memorandum: "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly...will not be reelected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration;...
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My Generation: An Autobiographical Interpretation

William Jewett Tucker - 1919 - 530 pages
...doubted the possibility of his reelection that he wrote the now well-known but then private memorandum: "This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be reflected. Then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the President-elect as to save the Union between...
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