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The youngest member of the Lincoln family, "Tad" (1843-71) was
well known for his White House antics. He was named for Abraham Lincoln's father, but his nickname came from his father's belief that he resembled a "tadpole" at birth. Compassionate but impulsive, there was little doubt that Tad was spoiled by both parents. Secretary John Hay recalled, "He was so full of life and vigor — so bubbling over with health and high spirits, that he kept the house alive with his pranks and his fantastic enterprises. He was always a 'chartered libertine,' and after the death of his brother Willie, a prematurely serous and studious child, and the departure of Robert for college, he installed himself as the absolute tyrant of the Executive Mansion. He was idolized by both his father and mother, petted and indulged by his teachers, and fawned upon and caressed by that noisome horde of office-seekers which infested the ante-rooms of the White House." He died at age of eighteen from what doctors termed 'compression of the heart'. |
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Lincoln, carte de visite
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