General Grant Reluctant Music Patron Quips About Singing
The excerpt recalls General Grant's minimal appetite for music and a remark he made about a guest singer at his Long Branch cottage. He quipped that one song was Yankee Doodle and the other not, highlighting his dry humor in social moments with the guest and her husband.
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