GDG- The Retreat --- Lincoln's "Irational" Expectation

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Chet:

That was an interesting story Tom Wheeler told on CSPAN about Lincoln in the telegraph office.  He obviously has a lot of enthsiasm for his subject.  You could just picture Lincoln doing that.   Someone just gave me his book - unfortunatly, it has to wait on the "to read" pile.

Paula

> In fact, with the telegrams, not only were the originals saved but so 
> were the copies made for Lincoln who would walk over to the telegraph 
> office, sit at the chief operator's desk at a window overlooking 
> Pennsylvania Avenue and open the door where the copies were kept and began 
> reading the copies, making notes or writing replies when necessary until he 
> got down to what he called "the raisins," by which he meant those telegrams 
> he previously had read. 
> With regards, 
> Chet 
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