When Lincoln was leaving Springfield for Washington by train, over 1,000 people met him at the train station to say goodbye and to wish him good luck when he was the president and just to cry about it.
A man named Allan Pinkerton was responsible for guarding Lincoln on the trip to Washington. And because of all of the rumors going around about an assassin that was going to try to assassinate him when he got to Washington, Pinkerton decided that the best way to handle that was to take an earlier train from Springfield to the Capitol to stump the would be assassins from assassinating Lincoln.
Pinkerton's plan did work out. And I don't mean lifting weights.
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