greenfield, and is really there to deal with this guy she doesn't like, roscoe conklin, in negotiating members of the cabinet. >> host: the actual vote was one of the closest elections in history, and garfield after winning said this: it is a terrible responsible to come to him and to me. so did she want to become first lady? she didn't really want to become first lady for herself. she very strongly believed in her husband, and they had really been through everything. they lost two children. they had marital troubles. and by the time he has run in 1880, they are very clear and very square on the same page in terms of their values, and they both shared a lot of intellectual and literary pursuits that was a mutual passion, which i think during the tough times kept them together. but she was at the time she got the news that he had won the nomination, she was scrubbing the floor and didn't want to pose for photographs. she is very reluctant, and she did, and of course, her image is the first that we start to see being used in paraphernalia during the campaign. she wrote a private letter t