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TIL that hours before Lincoln’s assassination, he dreamt that he walked into the East Room of the WH to find a covered corpse guarded by soldiers and surrounded by a crowd of mourners. Lincoln asked one of the soldiers who had died, the soldier replied, “The president. He was killed by an assassin.

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