. Sickles visited Buchanan at Wheat- land in February 1857, just before Buchanan's inauguration as Pres- ident. As late as February 22, 1861, less than two weeks before the end of the Buchanan Administration, Sickles still had influence on the President. On that day he obtained from Buchanan a reversal of a

of making her will of 1895 she may have despaired of ever seeing a monument erected at the birthplace of James Buchanan. Perhaps if she would charge a group of trustees with the responsibility to use part of her estate to erect two memorials, rather than one, and involve the Congress of the United

England, the vote was two to one for Fremont: in the Middle Atlantic and Midwestern states it was roughly a tie between Fremont and Buchanan; and in the South Atlantic and Gulf States there was no Fremont vote at all. 1 2 The Buchanan Democrats polled pluralities in six of the eight great geographical sec

intimate political friend of Buchan- an and visited at Wheatland. Reed was familiar with Buchanan's desires as to the way in which various matters might be treated in the biography of the Fifteenth President. Reed was of excellent age to undertake the task, becoming sixty-two within a few weeks after