. >> i'm from mechanicsburg, pennsylvania. i read your book and enjoyed it. i'd like to check my understanding with you as far as his relationship with grant. it seems to me as though at first he figured grant wasn't doing the paperwork correctly and that's why grant was a lousy general in his eyes. and it seems to me he thought that he had taught grant how to do the paperwork correctly and that's why grant turned into a success. is that true? >> yes and no. your first part, i think, is correct. halleck can't believe that grant can be so sloppy with his paperwork. and it's true. halleck not only tried to teach grant but he tried to teach all his other generals. there's a very famous let their grant has his chief of staff send to all his generals saying this is the way i want you to fold letters when you send them to me. and you're right. he doesn't think grant is a good general because he's so sloppy. for example, halleck defends grant after shiloh, but he still calls grant on the carpet and says you really screwed up, not so much in the battle. i don't say a

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al mackey from mechanicsburg, pennsylvania. where do you stand on the accuracy of lehman's claim that lincoln had come back from giving the speech and sat down next to him and said, lehman, that speech won't scowl. >> the won't scowl story first emerges in the late 1870s. and it was much discussed at the time. and people like david wills and james speed, in fact, they said, no, lincoln did not feel that way. i, in the -- in the book i argue that lincoln probably, as he did, often spoke deprecatingly of his words in some ways. he talk ed about them short, short, short, that kind of thing, the few remarks i gave, those kinds of things came to him easily. he was not one to puff up his achievements or accomplishments. so when you talk to him about his speech, you could easily say, yes, these few words or something of this sort. and people might have heard him saying these aren't -- not so great, i'm not that -- but what he said to james speed about the compliment that everett gave him and later on, other indications that i give in

. >> al mackie from mechanicsburg, pennsylvania, where do you stand on the accuracy of lehman's claim that after lincoln councilmember back from givigav the speech he came back and said it won't scal. >> it emerges in the late '70s. it was much discussed at the time. people like david wills and james speed. james speed was prompted by fighting against what he said. they said, no, lincoln did not feel that way. i, in the -- in the book i argue that lincoln probably, as he did, often spoke dep ra kaitingly with his words. he talked about them being short, short, short, the few remarks that i gave. he was not one to puff up his achievements or accomplishments. when you talked to him about his speech, he could easily say, yes, these few words or something of this sort. people might have heard him saying, it's not so great, i am not that -- but what he said to james speed about the compliment that everett gave him, and then later there are other indications that i give in the back that lincoln did understand that his speech was something people talked about and recognized and lincoln himse