—To mind the business of the nation, and his own, too.
Anything else?
Well, but what is that business?
—The business of the nation?
Yes.
—He makes treaties, weeds out old political hacks, and sends them on embassies where they cannot annoy him, and have nothing to do; appoints Judges of the Supreme Court like Joe Bradley, when he wants to play eight-to-seven, commands the army and navy, gets fifty thousand dollars a year, takes all the presents he can get, lives in the White House, and does a kind of general housekeeping business for the country.
I was not talking of Grant. Let that go. Does he do anything else?
—Yes; if he comes from Ohio, he fills nearly every place he's got to give away with lean, hungry Ohio men, so that you can get a "whiff" of that state all over Washington, and in a good many other places too, any time of the day or night.
Really I don't understand you. All our Presidents do not come from Ohio or Illinois!