PRESIDENT HARDING SAYS SPIRIT OF GENERAL GRANT NEEDED TODAY
Point Pleasant, Ohio (JFK+50) On April 27, 1922, the 100th anniversary of the birth of General Ulysses Simpson Grant*, President Warren G. Harding said the world of today needs "something of the spirit of General Grant."
The President's voice boomed over sound amplifiers that made his voice audible thirty miles distant.
Mr. Harding said...
"I...wonder if the magnanimity** of Grant, the dogged, persistent, unalterable General in warfare, would not be helpful in the world today."
Speaking of General Grant's performance at the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox, President Harding said...
"He could neither hate nor humiliate, and in the very glow of surpassing triumph, he could not be ungracious or inconsiderate."
*Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio & graduated United States Military Academy. USG was Commanding General of Union forces 1864-1869, Secretary of War 1867-1868, & POTUS 1869-1877.
**magnanimity is the condition of being of great mind & heart, the act of being magnanimous or generous.
SOURCE
"President Says Grant Was Model For Nation," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., April 27, 1922, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
