Is it true a little girl told Mr. Abe Lincoln he’d look better (and probably he’d win the next election) with a beard? …which he DID win the next presidential election!
Has anyone else heard this story?
Odd but true?
- Jinx
On October 15, 1860 11 year old Grace Bedell of Westfield NY wrote Lincoln the following letter…it worked. The man promptly let his whiskers grow. It’s great insight into an 11 year old girl’s mind in the 1800s.
Hon A B Lincoln…
Dear Sir
My father has just home from the fair and brought home your picture and Mr.Hamlin’s. I am a little girl only 11 years old, but want you should be President of the United States very much so I hope you wont think me very bold to write to such a great man as you are. Have you any little girls about as large as I am if so give them my love and tell her to write to me if you cannot answer this letter. I have got 4
brother’s and part of them will vote for you any way and if you let your whiskers grow I will try and get the rest of them to vote for you you would look a great deal better for your face is so thin. All the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husband’s to vote for you and then you would be President. My father is going to vote for you and if I was a man I would vote for you to but I will try to get every one to vote for you that I can I think that rail fence around your picture makes it look very pretty I have got a little baby sister she is nine weeks old and is just as cunning as can be. When you direct your letter direct to Grace Bedell Westfield Chatauque
County New York
I must not write any more answer this letter right off Good bye
Grace BedellPolitical advisors do this kind of crap all the time. Did I say crap? Lemme say that again. CRAP.
George Bush Sr. took voice lessons to “Americanize” his snooty upper-class New England voice and make it sound more like the people he was trying to solicit votes from.