I remember to this day how scratchy his whiskers were.” 4 When Julie eagerly indicated she did, he responded: “Give me a kiss then and you can have it.” Julia recalled: “So I stretched up and he leaned over and I gave him a peck on the cheek. “Julie, do you want my picture?” asked Mr. Lincoln had a more flippant but gallant attitude toward Julia, who remembered one day in the Family Library when the President brought in some photographs. Lincoln coveted a lavender ribbon on a bonnet belonging to Julia’s mother, she virtually insisted on being given it.
Lincoln comforted her: ‘Yes, dear, it is sad when our friends are in the rebel army.’ On the other hand, when Mrs. When Julia lamented about a boyfriend who had joined the Confederates, Mrs. Taft, was chief examiner in the patent office. Lincoln called her a “flibbertigibbet” which he defined as “a small, slim thing with curls and a white dress and a blue sash who flies instead of walking.” 2 Julia and her brothers left Washington shortly after Willie’s funeral their presence was painful to Tad and his mother. In many ways, Julia was treated like the daughter the Lincolns never had. Their 16-year-old sister Julia Taft often supervised the mischievous foursome before their illnesses. It makes me feel worse to see them.” 1 Perhaps one reason was that the Taft and Lincoln boys looked remarkably alike. But Mary Lincoln banished the two boys from Willie’s memorial service, writing the Tafts’ mother: “Please keep the boys home the day of the funeral. “If I go he will call for me,” he told the President when Mr. When Willie was dying, Bud held a vigil at Willie’s deathbed. The two Taft boys, Bud and Holly, were the constant playmates-and sometime schoolmates-of Willie and Tad Lincoln until Willie’s death in February 1862.
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