From the hour Abraham Lincoln crossed the threshold of the White House to the hour he went thence to his death, there was not a moment when he did not dominate the political and military situation and his official subordinates.
Watterson asserts Lincoln's consistent dominance over the political and military landscape throughout his presidency.
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