Originally Posted By: J.B.
Originally Posted By: Barry the Pirate
I don't think he got any passes, from the very beginning. He was hugely unpopular, and not just in the South. Like JFK. He became a saint when he took his last breath. Everything before was forgotten.



Yup, and worse for both: Their mantles were taken up by the very folks that despised 'em.


That always seems to be the way it works out when the transfer of power is less than peaceful. I've always wondered what Boothe would have thought had he seen the decimation of the south that was brought about almost single handedly by his act at Ford's Theater.
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