Here at Washington I grew up with it.

I have been fighting legislative battles for the Army all my life.

That you Yankees should come to a ragged old rebel like me for such a service is a distinction indeed, and I feel immensely honored.

But which page of the court calendar made you a plural?
Whom do you mean by "we" ?' "'Why,' he replied in serio-comic vein, 'the President, the Secretary of War and Me, myself.' "I promised him to think it over and give him an answer.

Next day I received a letter from the President, making the formal official tender and expressing the hope that I would not decline it.