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[QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 5497257, member: 225"]
As for me, I wasn't around when Washington was elected. I do have my Lincoln stories though.

I'm not going to rip Abe. He was the G.O.A.T. Still, he had a weird ego thing going on about his height. I guess it made him feel more authoritative. He always claimed he was 6'4" but let me tell you, I stood next to him a few times when he didn't have his giant hat on and he was no taller than me. I just kept thinking "hey! his head isn't as big as it looks in photos!" Boy, he loved that top hat. I think it really fluffed up his self-esteem.

The night of the Ford Theater/John Wilkes Booth thing, Abe sent a messenger over to tell me he was doing a tailgate-like event before the performance. I had never heard of such a thing before. He said it would be 65 cents. Great, I bought a ticket but had to cancel. The crappy part is that he wouldn't refund my 65 cents. I thought that was petty. Because of that, I wasn't too sad about what happened later that evening but don't tell anyone I said that. I don't want historians bad-mouthing me.
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