It’s still the most stressful job on the planet, aging the occupants of the White House well before their time. Alexander Gardner, Mathew Brady and others left a photographic record of the changes in Abraham Lincoln’s appearance as he made the transition from a traveling lawyer to a war-weary chief executive embarking on his second term.
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