"Mary [Lincoln]'s long history of emotional imbalance and physical abuse of her husband dated back to the early years of their marriage. She had struck him on the head with firewood, chased him from their home with a knife, thrown potatoes and tomatoes at him, flung hot coffee in his face, and grabbed and pulled out some of his whiskers. In the White House she entertained devious, unscrupulous men such as Henry Wikoff, a former secret agent for the British who was jailed for kidnapping and seducing an American woman in Europe. Lincoln's secretary John Hay called him a 'branded social pariah.' Yet Mary took him on long carriage rides and even leaked through him to the New York Herald an advance copy of Lincoln's State of the Union message, which resulted in a congressional investigation. She also had overspent in one year a four-year appropriation to redecorate the White House and tried to cover the overexpenditure by padding the household bills and certifying fake bills, such as one for 517 loads of manure for the While House lawn."
And there are 517 loads of crap for you.
Quote from Lincoln and Booth, by H. Donald Winkler, 2003, pp. 88-9.
Speaking of manure, H. Donald Winkler? So do you agree with him that the whole Lincoln assasination was orchestrated by the Jefferson Davis regime? Was I right in pointing out elsewhere that your tinfoil beanie was a bit too tight?