…GOES WITH THE JOB
Over and over again opposition newspapers large and small said that Lincoln's goal was to raise the then-current presidential salary of $25,000 to $100,000 a year, as he wished; that he was drawing his salary in gold while the soldiers were paid in greenbacks as he wished; that his length of time in office was to be fixed by Congress for a life term, as he wished. Of course, the fact that none of those scurrulous rumors was true was no reason not to spread them.
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