INT. THADDEUS STEVENS'S HOUSE - NIGHT

Stevens is met at the door by LYDIA SMITH, a black woman in her fifties. As she helps him off with his coat, he takes a piece of paper from his pocket.

           THADDEUS STEVENS

A gift for you.

She takes it.

THADDEUS STEVENS (CONT'D) The greatest measure of the Nineteenth Century. Passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.