When French, whose position made him a virtual member of the presidential household, complied with her request, he found the president “inexorable.” The commissioner explained that “a Mr. Carryl has presented a bill of some $7000 over the appropriation, for furnishing this house, and, before I can ask for an appropriation to pay it, it must have your approval.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln ∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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