“I only know two tunes. One is Yankee Doodle, and the other one isn't.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

Quoted by Robert C. Winthrop in a letter http://books.google.com/books?id=kSUdAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+only+know+two+tunes+one+is+yankee+doodle+and+the+other+isn't%22&pg=PA40#v=onepage to George W. Childs (c. 1889).

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18th President of the United States 1822–1885

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