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From: "Cheryl Hemingway" <>
Subject: [ILJODAVI] a bit of history
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 17:48:47 -0400

I was just reading a speech by John F. Kennedy which was given on Feb. 12, 1960. One paragraph jumped out at me because of it's reference to one of my own favorite towns in Jo Daviess County:

We cannot be reassured that we are building the best defense merely because we now have a general in the White House. For we have had generals in the White House before-and when Grant was asked in 1868 if he really wanted to be President, he was honest enough to reply: "No, I am a military man, not a statesman. I would just like to be Mayor of Galena long enough to build a sidewalk from my house to the station."

-Cheryl Hemingway


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