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| | Mr. Lincoln's White House: Montgomery Blair (1813-1883) |
 | | John Hay recorded in his diary on the day of Blair's resignation: "Blair in spite of some temporary indiscretions is a good and true man and a most valuable public officer. |
 | | Blair, who took his problems of consequence directly to the President, was the natural recipient of that confidence. |
 | | The resignation of Frémont and Cochrane was received yesterday, and the President, commenting on it, said F. had stated 'the Administration was a failure, politically, militarily, and financially,' that this included the Secretaries of State, Treasury, War, and Postmaster-General, and he thought the Interior, but not the Navy or the Attorney-general. |
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