[CondoleezzaProtege]

President Trump alluded poignantly to Lincoln's melancholy following the loss of his sons, on the Joe Rogan Podcast while describing the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[heavy metal]

lincoln logs...

[Jan_Sobieski]

Abraham Lincoln apparently got over his depression by killing Southern Christians who disagreed with him.

[mass55th]

The Lincoln Bedroom during Lincoln’s time in office was used as an office and Cabinet Room. It was also where he signed The Emancipation Proclamation. The bed that is in the room today is the bed that his son Willie died in on February 20, 1862.

[combat_boots]

Bttt

[FrankRizzo890]

Abe was my 1st cousin 9 times removed. We both have a great-great-... grandfather named Tom Hanks. (Not that one). His grandfather... and my grandfather... were brothers.

[Paal Gulli]

If he'd known that roughly one million of the slaves he just had freed -- one in four -- would be dead in five years time (or less), he'd have saved Booth the touble of shooting him.

Downs documents that by the time of the 1870 US Census, 1 million of the 4 million slaves recorded in the 1860 census had simply vanished, dead from privations, disease or misadventure, chiefly because Lincoln had made no provisions for their maintenance or survival.

[know.your.why]

If i was married to Mary Todd I’d be nutz too.

[Bonemaker]

We are still struggling with the Union government, thank you very mudh,. Hopefully, Trump can fix it.

[WhattheDickens?]

Ping for Chad

[nwrep]

That is just sorrow. We are taking it too far by calling it depression.

[tired&retired]

Same is true about Winston Churchill. He referred to it as his Black Dog. There is a book about it by that title.

[DiogenesLamp]

Abraham Lincoln's struggle with Depression

He should have been depressed. He directly killed around a million men, and who knows how many died as an indirect result of his actions?