Wit and Wisdom of the American Presidents: A Book of Quotations, Paperback

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``I know only two tunes,`` said Ulysses S. Grant. ``One of them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.`` Jimmy Carter observed: ``Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.`` And Warren Harding complained: ``The White House is a prison. I can't get away from the men who dog my footsteps. I am in jail.``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, ``I may be President of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damn business,`` Calvin Coolidge's terse ``The chief business of America is business,`` Dwight Eisenhower's ``Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield,`` and George Herbert Walker Bush's ``Read my lips, no new taxes.``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.