The widow of President Abraham Lincoln ,  Mary Todd Lincoln, went nuts after three of her four sons died before their maturities, and her husband  was assassinated. Her last living son locked her up in a loony bin. She is dismissed by history as a shrew, a nag, a spendthrift, a woman with a permanent case of PMS. This Blog would like the Reader to recast Mary Todd in a new light, as one of the most momentous women in history, and THE most momentous woman in  American history. Mary Todd came from a very influential Kentucky family, closely allied with that titan of American politics, Henry Clay, the original War Hawk. Clay had been  Senator from Kentucky, Secretary State of the United States and Speaker of the US House of Representatives, everything but President. And oh how  Mr. Clay wanted to be President, but he never pulled it off. As a flirtatious young girl, up to the age of 14, Mary would sit on the lap of her family friend, Senator Henry Clay and in h...