"e;I know only two tunes,"e; said Ulysses S. Grant. "e;One of them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't."e; Jimmy Carter observed: "e;Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread."e; And Warren Harding complained: "e;The White House is a prison. I can't get away from the men who dog my footsteps. I am in jail."e;This entertaining, handy little book includes over 400 other memorable quotes, expressed by America's chief executives over the past two centuries, among them Chester Arthur's blunt, "e;I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business,"e; Calvin Coolidge's terse "e;The chief business of America is business,"e; Dwight Eisenhower's "e;Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield,"e; and George Herbert Walker Bush's "e;Read my lips, no new taxes."e;From George Washington to Barack Obama, these presidential declarations will not only provide public speakers and students of American history with a wealth of useful material, they'll also delight general readers.
