"Padding the resumé" quickly joins those awkward Survivor phrases I've come to despise like "you saved my life in the game", "playing the social game", and any time Jeff calls a returning player by his/her last name.

That's a great point about Rufus…one of the great possibilities with this show is the potential connections between the bit players in all of this.

Lol you caught me before I could correct myself. Here
I am complaining about historical accuracy and I wrote Stanton instead of Seward.

Was I the only one bothered by the fast and loose relationship this show has with history? On the one hand, Edwin Booth saving Robert Lincoln and Lincoln's bodyguard being in the saloon are nice, accurate touches. I can forgive not having Atzerodt chicken out…maybe the gift of a better weapon gave him confidence. But…