How much is 20, 000 in 1860s?
I know it was like, the White House decorating budget for 4 years, and Mary Todd Lincoln had overspent it in one!
During her courtship, Mary allegedly described "the man of her choice, mentioning his unprepossessing apperance and awkwardness, and with a merry appreciation of the humor of the prediction,again said: 'But I mean to make him the President of the United States all the same. You will see that, as I always told you, I will yet be the President's wife." (366) In the late 1840s, she predicted Ward Hill Lamon that Lincoln "is to be President of the United States some day; if I had not thought so I never would have married him, for you can see he is not pretty." (367).
...so she was physically abusive like Chris Brown, and used her marriage to the big star for all it's worth and credit history like Kevin Federline? No doubt many of her haters hated her for all the wrong things, her cleavage, her boldness, but just because there are people who hated her for the wrong things doesn't excuse the fact that she was an abusive beater and overspends on frills when the country was poor and at war.
Srsly, just do a genderflip and it's clearly horrifying. The comment against his looks was petty cruelty. Don't think it doesn't get to boys too. Prime Minister John A. Macdonald was called 'ugly Macdonald' in his boyhood, and his notebook included a distorted sketch of himself along that line that broadcasted :(
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During her courtship, Mary allegedly described "the man of her choice, mentioning his unprepossessing apperance and awkwardness, and with a merry appreciation of the humor of the prediction,again said: 'But I mean to make him the President of the United States all the same. You will see that, as I always told you, I will yet be the President's wife." (366) In the late 1840s, she predicted Ward Hill Lamon that Lincoln "is to be President of the United States some day; if I had not thought so I never would have married him, for you can see he is not pretty." (367).
...so she was physically abusive like Chris Brown, and used her marriage to the big star for all it's worth and credit history like Kevin Federline? No doubt many of her haters hated her for all the wrong things, her cleavage, her boldness, but just because there are people who hated her for the wrong things doesn't excuse the fact that she was an abusive beater and overspends on frills when the country was poor and at war.
Srsly, just do a genderflip and it's clearly horrifying. The comment against his looks was petty cruelty. Don't think it doesn't get to boys too. Prime Minister John A. Macdonald was called 'ugly Macdonald' in his boyhood, and his notebook included a distorted sketch of himself along that line that broadcasted :(
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