Lincoln was traveling to Manhattan in style; the normally staid New York Times described his car like it was something out of “Pimp My Ride”: The floor is covered with beautiful tapestry of delicate colors. The sides below the base line of the windows are covered with crimson …. In 1863 he wrote, Lincoln “has a face like a Hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes beautiful, with its strange mouth, its deep cut, criss-cross lines, and its doughnut complexion. … …

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