guiteau was a self-made madman. he was smart and scrubby, he was a clever opportunist and he would probably have been very successful had he not been insane. guiteau tried everything and he had failed everything. he tried the wall coming evangelism, even free love commune in the 1800's and he failed even at that. the women in the coming nicknamed him charles "get out" [laughter] what he called all over the country by train and never bought a ticket. he took pride moving from boarding house to boarding house, slipping out when the rent was two. and even when he occasionally worked as a bill collector, he would as gave whatever he managed to collect. after the republican convention, guiteau became obsessed with garfield and immediately after the election, he began to stock the president yet he went to the white house nearly every day. at one point he even walked into the president's office while the president was in it. he even attended a reception and introduced himself to garfield's life. he shook her hand and gave