{"id":165197,"date":"2026-10-16T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/16\/the-future-supreme-court-justice-had-some-pithy-advice-for-the-president\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:02:24","slug":"the-future-supreme-court-justice-had-some-pithy-advice-for-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/16\/the-future-supreme-court-justice-had-some-pithy-advice-for-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Supreme Court Justice Had Some Pithy Advice For The President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In July 1864, Confederate forces raided the edge of Washington, and President Abraham Lincoln rode out to a fort to watch and stood up on the parapet, stovepipe hat and all, in plain view of Confederate sharpshooters. It remains the only time a sitting U.S. president came under direct enemy fire. As the story goes, a young Union officer \u2014 a 23-year-old Oliver Wendell Holmes, then an aide-de-camp, gave what advice to Lincoln? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Though the tale is very likely apocryphal, and many people claimed to give Lincoln similar advice, the story has entered American folklore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/the-future-supreme-court-justice-had-some-pithy-advice-for-the-president\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Future Supreme Court Justice Had Some Pithy Advice For The President<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>In July 1864, Confederate forces raided the edge of Washington, and President Abraham Lincoln rode out to a fort to watch and stood up on the parapet, stovepipe hat and all, in plain view of Confederate sharpshooters. It remains the only time a sitting U.S. president came under direct enemy fire. As the story goes, a young Union officer \u2014 a 23-year-old Oliver Wendell Holmes, then an aide-de-camp, gave what advice to Lincoln? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: Though the tale is very likely apocryphal, and many people claimed to give Lincoln similar advice, the story has entered American folklore.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/the-future-supreme-court-justice-had-some-pithy-advice-for-the-president\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Future Supreme Court Justice Had Some Pithy Advice For The President<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! In July 1864, Confederate forces raided the edge of Washington, and President Abraham Lincoln rode out to a fort to watch and stood up on the parapet, stovepipe hat and all, in plain view of Confederate sharpshooters. It remains the only time a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}