A New York politician in writing a letter of condolence to the widow of a deceased member of the Legislature, says : —“ I cannot tell you how pained I was to hear that your husband had gone to Heaven. We were bosom friends, but now we shall never meet again. ”
President Grant has made a joke, apropos of the veto and of a possible third term. Ladies were expressing their admiration of the life-sized portrait of him in the White House, and Steward L. Woedfordwas alongside, “Yes,” said President Grant,” Mrs Grant and myself have often been puzzled as to what disposition should be made of it after retiring from public life. It being so very large, no ordinary room will contain it.” To this Mr Woodford responded by suggesting that there might another four years’ service as president fall to his lot. “Ah ! ” said President Grant, “ that would be an inflation of my term of office, and, as I have taken occasion to pronounce against inflation, the suggestion would also for consistency have to be vetoed.”
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 261, 13 April 1875, Page 3
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