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Ulysses S. Grant

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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other one isn't.
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As quoted in Our Contemporary Composers: American Music in the Twentieth Century (1941) by John Tasker Howard, Arthur Mendel, p. 244.

 
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