When Elizabeth Blair Lee chided Jessie Frémont for acting like Catherine the Great, she shot back: “Not Catherine but Josephine.” Mrs. Lee replied, “you are too imperious for her.” Mrs. Frémont warned that her husband would challenge Frank Blair to a duel. Frank’s father told her she was acting “in very bad taste” and urged her to return to her family in St. Louis. He loftily added that in Washington “we make men and unmake them.” She snapped: “I have seen some men of your making, and if that is the best you can do, I would advise you to quit the business.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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