“Lincoln’s height, saying she’ll need to “take a ladder to get to Abraham’s bosom.” (In later years, Lincoln would turn their fourteen-inch height difference into a joke; they were, he’d say, “the long and the short”
― Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
― Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
“All are equal, but some are more equal than others,”
― Next Year in Havana
― Next Year in Havana
“Lincoln would remember this episode with amusement.20”
― Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
― Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Keckly: The Remarkable Story of the Friendship Between a First Lady and a Former Slave
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