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Despite his encouraging start as a young man, by his early 50s Chester A. Arthur was known as the crooked crony of NY machine employer Roscoe Conkling. For years Arthur have been regarded as unfit to govern, not only by critics and almost all his fellow people but by his own conscience. As Leader Wayne A. Garfield battled for his life, Arthur knew much better than his detractors that he didn't meet the high standard a leader must uphold. And yet, as soon as President Arthur had taken office, he became not just honest but brave, going up against the forces that got controlled him for many years. He amazed everyone - and gained many enemies - when he swept house and had taken on problem, civil rights for blacks, and issues of land for Native Americans. A mysterious young girl deserves much of the credit for Arthur's amazing transformation. Julia Sand, a bedridden New Yorker, wrote Arthur practically two dozen words urging him to put country over get together, to find "the spark of true nobility" that lay within him. At a time when women were barred from political life, Sand's words encouraged Arthur to transcend his checkered past - and modified the course of American history.
