“[D]ogged, devoted and dumb.”  That’s how H.L. Mencken described Ulysses S. Grant.  “West Point and bad whiskey had transformed his cortex into a sort of soup,” wrote the Sage of Baltimore in his essay, “The Men Who Rule Us” (The Impossible H.L. Mencken, p. 424).  “Whatever was palpably untrue convinced him instantly and whatever was crooked seemed to him to be noble.  If the American people could have kept him out of the presidency by prolonging the Civil War until 1877, it would have been an excellent investment.”

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