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As time passed, Willie became so weak that he resembled a shadow, and on February 20 the disease finally killed him. When he died, his father chokingly announced to the principal White House secretary: “Well, Nicolay, my boy is gone—he is actually gone!” and burst into tears. That day a journalist reported that “it would move the heart of his bitterest political enemy … to witness the marked change which grief has wrought upon him.” The next morning he appeared “completely prostrated with grief” when speaking with Elihu B. Washburne, who wrote his wife that Lincoln “is one of the most tender-hearted of men and devotedly attached to his children.”
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