Word: schouler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inauguration his mind appeared in a kind of maze. He signed important papers without reading them, and while refusing to see the Confederate Commissioners, suffered them to tarry in Washington, where they were fed with all sorts of promises by Seward, his Secretary of State. What does James Schouler, a friendly historian say? It is that Lincoln's behavior through the month of March, 1861 was as "though he had no policy and was waiting for his Cabinet to form one for him." And yet this month was the crucial period of his administration, for the issue of peace...