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Google News: Gilbert: Willie's Story
[Vermont Public Radio] - Lincoln said to one of his private secretaries, John Nicolay, "Well, Nicolay, my boy is gone - he is actually gone." Then he broke down in tears. "He was too good for this earth." "I know that he is much better off in heaven, " Lincoln said
Bloomington's Swett once a frequent visitor to Lincoln White House
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[Bloomington Pantagraph] - One month later, Swett, Lincoln and the two White House secretaries, John Nicolay and John Hay, spent the evening at Ford's Theatre to see Shakespeare's “Henry IV” (though Lincoln didn't much care for James H. Hackett's interpretation of Falstaff).
Google News: Classic Movie Nights Start Rolling in Marion
[Wanderer] - According to Ms. Teves, Lincoln biographers John Nicolay and John Hay both visited Marion while working with Richard Watson Gilder, editor of The Century Magazine. Nicolay and Hay were Lincoln's personal secretaries who later wrote a very popular
The Battle over President Lincoln’s Legacy
www.thedailybeast.com
Who would determine how the world saw America’s greatest president, his old friend or his secretaries? A new book tells the story of the men who were by his...
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