In October 1860, a few weeks before being elected president, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) received some advice from an eleven year old girl named Grace Bedell. What was it?
Grow a beard.
Clean shaven, Lincoln was told by Bedell that he needed a beard, as “all the ladies like whiskers and they would tease their husbands to vote for you and then you would be president.”
Shortly thereafter, for the first time in his life, Lincoln grew his iconic beard and was elected president.
Source: Affairs of State by Robert P. Watson.
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