I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.

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In the 1930s a book written by Otto Eisenschiml accused Stanton of arranging the assassination of Lincoln.

After Lincoln's assassination Stanton remained as the Secretary of War under the new President Andrew Johnson during the first years of Reconstruction. Edwin McMasters Stanton (December 19 1814 – December 24 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary of War under the Lincoln Administration during most of the American Civil War.