Lincoln - The Truth

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upheld by the Congress. Lincoln did what needed to be done.
Lincoln was an honest man. Especially when dealing with personal money matters. For example, at one point during his administration, Congress granted him twenty thousand dollars to fix up and refurbish the White House. In doing so, Mrs. Lincoln exceeded the allowed dollar amount by six thousand seven hundred dollars. President Lincoln said that he would not ask for the Congress to give him more money, especially at a time of unrest between the North and South, with his soldiers being short of blankets. Instead, he told them that he would pay for the excess out of his own pocket. Though Congress did decide to pay for the overrun by adding it to the budget for the next year, Lincoln did not ask, and was prepared to pay for it himself.
When a nation is unprepared for a war and has to quickly get ready; money, along with other things, is wasted. This is due to the fact that profiteers decided that a buck was to be made, ...

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and came up with an indictment of 1,109 pages. The major complaint against him was like so many others, that he had been ignoring competitive bidding and had bought objects from middlemen that he personally liked - in some cases, even when the seller had a reputation for being dishonest. What this lead to was the pay of high prices for lesser objects. Some of the acquired objects were large quantities of disintegrating blankets, spoiled pork, diseased or dying horses, and uniforms and knapsacks that fell apart in the rain. For this obvious waste and extravagance, though Cameron had not taken any financial favors, Lincoln shipped him off to Russia as the American minister. He had ...

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