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“I here record”: Ibid., 242–43.

23 “You can never know”: Ibid., 374.

24 “Dear wife”: Quoted in Shaw, Lucretia, 84.

25 “It is almost painful”: Shaw, Crete and James, 233.

26 “life of my life”: Garfield, Diary, May 13, 1881, 4:590.

27 “the continent, the solid land”: Quoted in Peskin, Garfield, 347.

28 “to get her further from the river air”: Garfield, Diary, May 10, 1881, 4:589.

29 “I am sorry to say”: Harriet S. Blaine and Beale, Letters of Mrs. James G. Blaine, 202.

30 “I refused to see people”: Garfield, Diary, May 11, 1881, 4:590.

31 “I try to be cheerful”: Peskin, Garfield, 230.

32 Every day, Garfield consulted: Garfield, Diary, May 9, 1881, 4:589.

33 “fever powders”: Ibid., May 11, 1881, 4:589–90.

34 “If I thought her return”: Shaw, Lucretia, 101.

35 “In the majority of cases”: Crook, Through Five Administrations, 269.

36 “The President says it will be impossible”: United States v. Guiteau, 589.

37 “I will tell you how I do it”: Ibid., 633.

38 The technique had worked: Ibid., 221.

39 “Mr. Guiteau came into my office”: Ibid., 220.

40 “I lived”: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 459.

41 Despite the constant humiliations: Ibid., 513–14.

42 “possessed of an evil spirit”: Ibid., 504.

43 “very proud and nice”: Ibid., 499.

44 After years of living as a traveling evangelist: “A Great Nation in Grief,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.

45 While everyone else was wearing: United States v. Guiteau, 446.

46 “somewhat haggard and weak”: Ibid., 222.

47 When Guiteau did have an opportunity: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 38.

48 “Do you know who I am?”: Crook, Through Five Administrations, 267.

49 “elected the President”: United States v. Guiteau, 445–46.

50 “He did not strike me”: Ibid., 446.

51 “The first time that I see”: Ibid., 446–47.

52 “to have a consulship”: Ibid., 128–29.

53 “We have not got to that yet”: Ibid., 647.

54 So frequent were Guiteau’s visits: Ibid., 202.

55 “he had, in my opinion”: Ibid., 647, 117.

56 Before Lucretia had fallen ill: Hinsdale, Garfield-Hinsdale Letters, 489.

57 “perfidy without peril”: Shaw, Lucretia, 95.

58 Not only had Garfield not consulted: Peskin, Garfield, 470.

59 “treacherously betray[ed] a secret trust”: Connery, “Secret History of the Garfield-Conkling Tragedy,” 149.

60 “casus belli”: Garfield, Diary, March 27, 1881, 4:565.

61 “I owe something”: Hinsdale, Garfield-Hinsdale Letters, 490.

62 Of more than one hundred newspapers: Peskin, Garfield, 569.

63 “has recognized Republicans”: “What the Newspapers Say,” New York Times, May 6, 1881.

64 Just two years earlier: “Marriage Starts Bride Down Aisle to Misery,” Washington Times, July 13, 2002. Kate Sprague’s husband would eventually divorce her, leaving her not only publicly humiliated and a social pariah, but penniless. By the end of her life, she would be reduced to selling eggs door to door, and, in 1899, would die from disease and malnutrition at the age of fifty-eight.

65 It was not until early May: Connery, “Secret History of the Garfield-Conkling Tragedy,” 146.

66 “Garfield has not been square”: Ibid.

67 After Robertson’s appointment: Doenecke, The Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur, 42.

68 “smiled and looked at me”: Connery, “Secret History of the Garfield-Conkling Tragedy,” 147.

69 “God will be merciful”: Garfield, Diary, May 15, 1881, 4:592.

70 “rebuke the President”: Peskin, Garfield, 571–72.

71 “Sir, Will you please”: “A Sensation in Politics,” New York Times, May 17, 1881.

72 “seemed to stupefy”: Ibid.

73 “a great big baby”: Peskin, Garfield, 572.

74 “a very weak attempt”: Garfield, Diary, May 16, 1881, 4:593.

75 A few days later, he announced: Ibid., March 21, 1881, 4:561.

76 “Having done all I fairly could”: Ibid., May 16, 1881, 4:593.

77 “with emphasis, it is ended”: Ibid., May 31, 1881, 4:602.

78 “Stung with mortification”: “Conkling’s Few Friends,” New York Times, June 2, 1881.

79 “A deep strong current”: Garfield, Diary, May 31, 1881, 4:602.

Chapter 10: The Dark Dreams of Presidents

1 “like a flash”: United States v. Guiteau, 593.

2 “If the President was out of the way”: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 428.

3 Guiteau was certain: United States v. Guiteau, 597.

4 “with renewed force”: Ibid., 593.

5 “no ill-will to the President”: Ibid., 215.

6 In fact, he believed that he had given: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 428.

7 “It seems to me that the only way”: United States v. Guiteau, 210.

8 “Until Saturday I supposed”: Ibid., 211.

9 “immediate resignation”: Ibid., 117.

10 “he should be quietly kept away”: Crook, Through Five Administrations, 266–67.

11 “That is the way I test the Diety”: United States v. Guiteau, 593.

12 “I kept reading the papers”: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 428.

13 “the divinity of the inspiration”: United States v. Guiteau, 593.

14 “I thought just what”: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 430.

15 “Two points will be accomplished”: United