Question of the Week: What would you tell Abe Lincoln?
If you could go back in time and give Abraham Lincoln one piece of advice of factual information, what would it be and when would you want to tell him?
If you could go back in time and give Abraham Lincoln one piece of advice of factual information, what would it be and when would you want to tell him?
Don’t attend Ford’s Theater tonight!
Avoid all theaters!
“Beware the Ides of Ford’s!”
Think thoroughly about reconstruction, how you want it to go and what is realistic.
How did you think it was going to go after you got stood up by the Army of the Potomac’s CO in November 1861?
Andrew Johnson will ruin reconstruction and oppose civil rights for the Freedmen. Find someone else to take the VP spot (assuming you plan to ignore all the other anti-theater advice).
Skip the theater.
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In April ’61, I would tell him “There’s a guy named Grant you should check out!”
Lincoln may not have survived his second term regardless of assassination so I would have asked him to keep Hamlin as his vp
Don’t go out to the theater.