Margaret Truman had asked that the “dark, clunky furniture” in her sitting room be moved. This furniture, it turned out, had been purchased during Abraham Lincoln's administration, and the Trumans had it moved to a room on the opposite end of the house, into a space renamed the Lincoln Bedroom—an ironic name, since Lincoln never slept in it. (He had used this space as his office, and it was in this room where, on January 1, 1863, he signed the documents that emancipated slaves in the eleven seceded Southern states.)
