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Ulysses S. Grant
Quoted in The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes, Reader's Digest, October, 1994, p. 142
Ulysses S. Grant
Quoted in The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes, Reader's Digest, October, 1994, p. 142
On his way to a reception held in his honor, Ulysses S. Grant got caught in a shower and offered to share his umbrella with a stranger walking in the same direction. The man said he was going to Grant's reception out of curiosity; he had never seen the general. "I have always thought that Grant was a much overrated man," he said.
"That's my view also," Grant replied.
