Especially the Goats

"Tell Tad the goats and father are very well -- especially the goats."

Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday, he would be 198 today. The above quote was one of his personal telegrams to his wife who was in New York. Tad (his son) had asked about the White House goats, but not about his father. The Washington Post has a nice piece on the great president and the invention of the telegram, the 19th century version of email.