Instead of suing him to try to get half of his worldly possessions, which would have been a whole lot of media holdings, she says, I'll take a lot less.
Oh, of course, she knew about the Scallawags — Southerners who had turned Republican very profitably — and the Carpetbaggers, those Yankees who came South like buzzards after the surrender with all their worldly possessions in one carpetbag.