The cardiovascular
death rate, meanwhile, was more than twice as high among the men in the first
month after diagnosis than it was among cancer - free men, although it was just 9 % higher
over the
course of the whole year.
Lincoln manages to encompass many aspects
of the president's last three
months: his arguments with his unstable wife, Mary Todd (Sally Field); his determination to keep their eldest son, Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt), out
of uniform; his grief
over the recent
death of their 11 - year - old son, Willie, and the thousands
of other sons taken by the war; his magnanimous friendships with the former political enemies who joined his cabinet; and
of course his assassination (which Spielberg ingeniously represents with a scene from a children's play).