Only 63. A tough life but he doesnt look so old. Could walk into any Starbucks in that beannie and no one would look twice.
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He had to write his memoir in order to leave his family something in his estate. He wrote right up to his death, a last act of love
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I know that fact from watching Ken Burns' documentary on the Civil War. (Really worth watching, if you've not seen it, it's on Netflix).
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Interesting backstory that Mark Twain funded this effort, & that Grant's family was near poverty before sale of these assured their support
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I remember seeing this photo in my U.S. President's book as a child and thinking he was outside in the dead of winter.
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I guess he was sick, but looking at that picture it sure looks cold, but it was June.
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It's sometimes cold in upstate NY in June and he was on a mountain.
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He still looks healthier than Trump.
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One of the best autobiographies ever written by a president
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How come no one names their children Ulysses any more?
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Just under the deadline.
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I'm hearing more and more about Ulysses Grant. He's doing great things.
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He was a fine Grant, indeed.
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A great book on the relationship of Grant and Twain. Grant wasn't just sick, he was in agony up to the endpic.twitter.com/0a5Scedt6n
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