According to Freedman, how did Lincoln continue to embrace his beginnings, even as President, in the book, Lincoln: A Photobiography?

Freedman notes that Lincoln all of his life talked like a frontiersman and, until going to Washington as president-elect continued to chop wood, milk his cow, and do other rural chores. He was also superstitious and believed in dreams, omens, and visions. These beliefs indicate a mystic side to Lincoln's personality, a conviction that under some circumstances a person's future may be revealed to him or her. Interestingly, the dream he described shortly before his assassination proved to be all too prophetic.