On Sat, 05 May 2007 03:37:26 +0000 "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
writes:
>
>
The fact that, as President, this sodden star-spangled sad
> sack
> nominally oversaw the most corrupt administration in US history is a
> mere
> footnote to his depredations in intensifying the scale and horror of
> war
> *and* in keeping the dickheads of Dixie conjoined to the
> (relatively)
> civilized folk of the North.
>
A different view of Grant as president can be found here: www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2006/jul/04/ulysses_grant_our_greatest_p resident
I think that Grant got tarred as a failed president precisely because of his efforts, to enfranchise the freedmen after the Civil War and to deal justly with the American Indians, were not exactly overwhelmingly popular in his day, nor for a long time afterwards.
Jim F.