Abraham Lincoln Beats Boothe to Death?

You know what, this will help set up a connection to Jackson. He might not become as famous as Washington as he wouldn't be a martyr, but he was a pioneer boy of sorts in his youth, he fought secessionists, and did grevious harm to his assassin. People are going to see it as a holy sign almost, especially with how The other assassinations also failed.

This is interesting because again i think the effects to his psyche during his second term would be drastic.
In my estimation, it would at the very least make him far more heavy handed in his implementation of retributive reconstruction.
Who knows? Maybe if the PoD is simply Mary gets shot and killed instead of him, such a butterfly might have tyrant-making implications.
 
Whilst Lincoln undoubtedly was virtually preternaturally strong in his youth, between the rather sedentary nature of his office as well as the President's galloping episodes of depression and his rather glaring physical decline from the First Inauguration onwards, I'm not sure he would have been able to have overcome the rather theatrical, intense Booth.
Now, had Mrs. Lincoln been in the midst of one of her infamous tantrums and swatted the gun out of his hand with her fan before he was able to fire the shot, that would have been an interesting turn.
 
Doris Kearns Goodwin said:
. . . He picked up an ax and “held it at arm’s length at the extremity of the [handle] with his thumb and forefinger, continuing to hold it there for a number of minutes. The most powerful sailors on board tried in vain to imitate him.”
Team of Rivals, Page 437

This was during the war. I don't think he would have had any problem dealing with Booth.
 
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