Jeff’s Reviews > Garfield > Status Update

[Finished the text.] Too crazy for the wacky religious cult, Charles Guiteau thought he would be seen a hero. But like Garfield is lost in the "bewiskered faces" of the presidents between Lincoln and Teddy, Guiteau is lost in the shadows of Booth and Oswald. Prey has taken predator down with him.

I just want to scream, "Look out!"

President Garfield.

That convention was insane!

This is gonna be fun! I've made it up to the election of Rud Hayes, who didn't become president-elect until just before the inauguration due to all the election corruption on both sides, and Garfield was one of the guys trying to sort through it all.

Discrédit Mobilier.

Funny how adamant opinions about limits on presidential power so often change once a guy becomes president, himself.

Tough talk, even though his heart said something else: "Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis for suffrage, the talisman of liberty... [Let us not be guilty] of committing his destiny to the tender mercies of those pardoned rebels who have been so reluctantly compelled to take their feet from his neck and their hands from his throat."

Peskin maintains that Garfield's "double vision" was not duplicity, but I imagine a lot of people fail to see the difference. On to Part Two...

Salmon P. Chase and James Garfield had much in common. At the top of the list: they both admired Salmon P. Chase. LOL