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The Perfectionists

Criminal

Charles Guto and James Garfield

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Charles Guto believed that if he worked on Greeley's Presidential campaign and Greeley went to the White House, then Guto was sure he would be rewarded with appointment as a foreign minister. He used that same template in 1880 when James Garfield ran for president. Guto rewrote that speech for Greeley as a speech for Garfield. But Garfield had never heard of Charles Guto.

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