[WhiskeyPapa]

What Butler said has been corroborated and authenticated by multiple reputable historians.

Impossible.

A conversation is alleged to have taken place, but one of the two parties is killed four days later. No account given by the other party will pass muster as a credible source by any reputable historian.

All a reputable historian will credit is what we know: "Butler said Lincoln said".

Walt

[Gianni]

All a reputable historian will credit is what we know: "Butler said Lincoln said".

So now have we gotten past the hurdle of admitting that the meeting actually at least took place?