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" I had been President of the United States," he later testified, "and I did not think it was suitable for me to have my name connected with Government contracts, and I knew that there was no large profit in them except by dishonest measures. There are... "
Panic on Wall Street: A History of America's Financial Disasters - Page 211
by Robert Sobel - 1999 - 469 pages
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A Personal History of Ulysses S. Grant: Illustrated by Thirty-two Engravings ...

Albert Deane Richardson - 1885 - 644 pages
...General declared that there rnug't never be any government contracts in the firm. Later he said : " I had been President of the United States, and I did...affairs dishonestly to make a profit or not, they are sometimes supposed to, and I did not think it was any place for me." , In the light of subsequent developments...
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The Life of General U.S. Grant: His Early Life, Military Achievements, and ...

L. T. Remlap - 1885 - 800 pages
...government contracts more than in anything else unless made wrong by the acts of the individual, but I had been President of the United States, and I did...except by dishonest measures. There are some men who got government contracts year in and year out, and whether they managed their affairs dishonestly or...
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The Life of General U.S. Grant: His Early Life, Military Achievements, and ...

Loomis T. Palmer - 1885 - 740 pages
...government contracts more than in anything else unless made wrong by the acts of the individual, but I had been President of the United States, and I did...except by dishonest measures. There are some men who got government contracts year in and year out, and whether they managed their affairs dishonestly or...
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The Life of General U.S. Grant: His Early Life, Military Achievements, and ...

Loomis T. Palmer - 1885 - 788 pages
...government contracts more than in anything else unless made wrong by the acts of the individual, but I had been President of the United States, and I did...except by dishonest measures. There are some men who got government contracts year in and year out, and whether they managed their affairs dishonestlv or...
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Ulysses S. Grant

Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...that this would be an impropriety. "I had been President of the United States," he later testified, "and I did not think it was suitable for me to have...affairs dishonestly to make a profit or not, they are sometimes supposed to, and I did not think it was any place for me." Grant, all unconscious of impending...
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Separating Fools from Their Money: A History of American Financial Scandals

Scott B. MacDonald, Jane Elizabeth Hughes - 2015 - 292 pages
...Indeed, Grant was to later state: "I had been President of the United States, and I did not think that it was suitable for me to have my name connected with government contracts, and I know that there was no large profit in them except by dishonest measures."5 Nonetheless, Ward had Grant...
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