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An undocumented source says that during his second term in office Lincoln planned to repeal the National Bank Act or restrict the powers it had granted bankers. Had Lincoln repealed this privilege, banks would have lost a huge money-making opportunity. | An undocumented source says that during his second term in office Lincoln planned to repeal the National Bank Act or restrict the powers it had granted bankers. Had Lincoln repealed this privilege, banks would have lost a huge money-making opportunity. | ||
[[File:Edwin McMasters Stanton Secretary of War.jpg|thumb|Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s Secretary of War, one of the conspirators in the assassination plot]] | |||
== The assassination plot == | == The assassination plot == | ||
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[[President of the United States]] | [[President of the United States]] | ||
For a detailed account of Lincoln’s life, including his embodiments as a pharaoh in ancient Egypt and as Charles Lindbergh, see {{9Cats}}. | |||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||