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Thaddeus Stevens:
As long as your household accounts are in order, Madam, we have no need to investigate them. Mary Todd Lincoln:
You have always taken such a lively, even prosecutorial interest in my household accounts, Mr. Stevens. Thaddeus Stevens:
Your household accounts have always been so interesting. Mary Todd Lincoln:
Yes, thank you, it's true. The miracles I have wrought out of fertilizer bills and cutlery invoices, but I had to. Four years ago, when the President and I arrived, this was a pure pigsty. Tobacco stains in the carpets, mushrooms sprouting from the ceilings! And a pauper's pittance allotted for improvements. As if your committee joined with all of Washington waiting, in what you anticipated to be our comfort in squalor, further proof that my husband and I were prairie primitives, unsuited to the position to which an error of the people, a flaw in the democratic process, had elevated us
As long as your household accounts are in order, Madam, we have no need to investigate them. Mary Todd Lincoln:
You have always taken such a lively, even prosecutorial interest in my household accounts, Mr. Stevens. Thaddeus Stevens:
Your household accounts have always been so interesting. Mary Todd Lincoln:
Yes, thank you, it's true. The miracles I have wrought out of fertilizer bills and cutlery invoices, but I had to. Four years ago, when the President and I arrived, this was a pure pigsty. Tobacco stains in the carpets, mushrooms sprouting from the ceilings! And a pauper's pittance allotted for improvements. As if your committee joined with all of Washington waiting, in what you anticipated to be our comfort in squalor, further proof that my husband and I were prairie primitives, unsuited to the position to which an error of the people, a flaw in the democratic process, had elevated us
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As long as your household accounts
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are in order madam
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we'll have no need to investigate them
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You have always taken such a lively
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even prosecutorial interest in my household accounts
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Your household accounts have always been so interesting
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Yes thank you It's true
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The miracles I have wrought
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out of fertilizer bills and cutlery invoices
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but I had to
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Four years ago when the President and I arrived
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this was pure pigsty
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Tobacco stains on the Turkey carpets
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Mushrooms green as the moon sprouting from the ceilings
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And a pauper's pittance allotted for improvements
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As if your committee joined with all of Washington
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awaiting in what you anticipated
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would be our comfort in squalor
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Further proof that my husband and I
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were prairie primitives
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unsuited to the position to which an error of the people
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a flaw in the Democratic process had elevated us
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Movie Summary
As the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.
