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On May 18, 1861, one year to the day after the then-fledgling Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln of Illinois as its presidential candidate, a newspaper account berated first lady Mary Todd Lincoln for allegedly having behaved in a shrewish manner toward her husband.
An unnamed reporter for the Humboldt (Calif.) Times attributed Lincoln’s hollow cheeks, sunken eyes and woebegone expression in large measure to his wife’s purported caprices and persistent interference in affairs of state. (It is fair to assume, which the reporter did not, that the Civil War, which had broken out a month earlier, may also have had something to do with the president’s troubled countenance.) continued https://www.politico.com/story/2018...coln-a-victim-of-fake-news-may-18-1861-590369
An unnamed reporter for the Humboldt (Calif.) Times attributed Lincoln’s hollow cheeks, sunken eyes and woebegone expression in large measure to his wife’s purported caprices and persistent interference in affairs of state. (It is fair to assume, which the reporter did not, that the Civil War, which had broken out a month earlier, may also have had something to do with the president’s troubled countenance.) continued https://www.politico.com/story/2018...coln-a-victim-of-fake-news-may-18-1861-590369