"I met him frequently about the Riggs House….He used to accost me every day about his..." 11

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“I met him frequently about the Riggs House….He used to accost me every day about his prospects, and was really a nuisance.”

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Benjamin Harrison on Charles J. Guiteau, Garfield’s assassin, July 4th, 1881.

Quoted on July 4th, 1881, by the Indianapolis Journal reporter who broke the news to Senator Harrison. The delusional Guiteau had Harrison believing that the future assassin was in line for a consulship. There were rumors at the time of a possible conspiracy linked to Vice President Arthur, which Harrison helped to discredit.

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