leader of the party and one of those three key states in the lower north, illinois, indiana, and sylvania, that republicans today needed to win in order to carry the 1860 election. and he ever so deliberately and carefully made himself the candidate in 1860. so his political skills are we --ear, his success for successor andrew johnson, have political skills that are way down there. johnson in an incredibly inept exultant -- exhibition of lyrical full hardiness, estranged himself from the party -- to be sure, johnson was not a republican. you been up prewar democrat. he was officially part of what they call the union party in 1864. but to do what he did and to not justrly alienate the radicals of the party, but the moderates of the party -- which is what he did in 1866 -- i can't imagine lincoln going that way. i think lincoln in 1866 would i figured out a way to work with people like william penn thus in and one of the leaders of the moderate senate and come up with something that would have been, you know, kind of building on the civil rights act of 1866. where he would have ended up, i