He has often said, that, were it not for my attention, he could not have lived.

So you see that the General and myself were very close to one another from the time either of us could lisp until he became President.

Here is a picture we had taken together," showing an old daguerreotype.

"It does not resemble either of us much now.

And yet they do say that we bore in our childhood, and still bear, a striking resemblance.