The Grant Years, speaks of Ulysses S. Grant

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…to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. From the age of 17 I had never even witnessed the excitement attending a Presidential campaign but twice antecedent to my own candidacy, and at but one of them was I eligible as a voter (WWW Page, 1994).' On March 4, 1877 Grant retired from the White House (Encarta, 1995). When he returned home, his family and him took a world trip and left from Philadelphia (O'Brien, Steven. 1991).