Comments on: Ulysses S. Grant’s Lifelong Struggle With Alcohol http://www.historynet.com/ulysses-s-grants-lifelong-struggle-with-alcohol.htm From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:03:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Letter From Milo: The Bum Gene « The Third City http://www.historynet.com/ulysses-s-grants-lifelong-struggle-with-alcohol.htm/comment-page-1#comment-96392 Letter From Milo: The Bum Gene « The Third City Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:47:25 +0000 #comment-96392 [...] get me wrong. A lot of people inherit the Bum Gene and still succeed in life. Ulysses Grant was a drunkard. Bill Clinton was a serial womanizer. Dostoevski was a degenerate gambler. Keith [...] [...] get me wrong. A lot of people inherit the Bum Gene and still succeed in life. Ulysses Grant was a drunkard. Bill Clinton was a serial womanizer. Dostoevski was a degenerate gambler. Keith [...]

]]> By: bob http://www.historynet.com/ulysses-s-grants-lifelong-struggle-with-alcohol.htm/comment-page-1#comment-26492 bob Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:11:48 +0000 #comment-26492 yo yo

]]> By: Walt Landers http://www.historynet.com/ulysses-s-grants-lifelong-struggle-with-alcohol.htm/comment-page-1#comment-15206 Walt Landers Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:45:21 +0000 #comment-15206 The evidence of the clarity of recall that Grant accurately displays in his memoirs does not indicate a mind sotten with liquor. It is amazing that history can be so influenced by people with negative attitudes, liars, and promoters of destructive innuendo. When Grant had close to absolute power, he was a genius. When asked to influence the morass of evil that pervades..now and then.. governments, he failed. Grant, in attitude and personal philosophy, was a good person. The evidence of the clarity of recall that Grant accurately
displays in his memoirs does not indicate a mind sotten with
liquor. It is amazing that history can be so influenced by people
with negative attitudes, liars, and promoters of destructive
innuendo.
When Grant had close to absolute power, he was a genius. When
asked to influence the morass of evil that pervades..now and
then.. governments, he failed.
Grant, in attitude and personal philosophy, was a good person.

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