Mrs. Lincoln
[Furious.]
You're too good and simple for this world! Don't you know that some schemer is behind all this——?
Lincoln
Maybe—— It's not a crime, Mother, for a man to aspire to high office, if the bee's in his bonnet. You know I've felt it tickle me lots of times——
Mrs. Lincoln
Don't—don't—don't say such foolish things. You need a guardian. You kept three men in your Cabinet who used their position to try to climb into the Presidency over your head. And you didn't kick them out.
Lincoln
The country needed them.
Mrs. Lincoln