"SUCH A SUCKER AS ME, PRESIDENT!"
When Lincoln's wife, at his prospect of being United States senator was on the verge of realization, reminded him of her prophecy, away back in the fifties, that he would attain the highest niche--the inevitable feminine "I told you so!" he clasped his knees in keen enjoyment, and, laughing a roar, cried out:
"Think of such a sucker as me as President!"
But presently, he said with his dry smile: "But I do not pretend I do not want to go to the Senate!"--(Henry Villard, then newspaper reporter.)