Gave the President this A.M. a list of applicants for
appointment to the Naval Academy. A great crowd was in attendance; I therefore
left the list for him to examine and deferred action until another interview.
Gave Admiral Lardner written instructions at some length,
and had a pretty full conversation in regard to his duties. He is discreet,
prudent, perhaps over-cautious, and I fear may want energy and force, but until
he is tested I will not pass judgment.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary
of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30, 1864, p.
319
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