The Friendship of the President and the Author #shorts #shortsvideo #facts #history #podcast #trivia

[AmirRKhan]

There's more to the Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) story. He saved Ulysses Grant from making a really bad book deal with another publisher and offered to publish it for him and gave him a much better deal that was more profitable for Grant.

[deanevans]

Grant's memoir is still the best presidential memoir ever written. I used to visit his tomb on 122nd Street and Riverside Drive when I lived in Manhattan, New York

[pjkammer]

Grant was an underrated President. A victim of the propaganda of his rivals, mostly in the south who hated that he brought the hammer down on the klan.

[GypsyQueen]

Cody Man. You rock. I dont know where you find this stuff but its gold. Very significant connections being made.

[rickyhunt]

Grant had a tendency to be very loyal and therefore naive. Sad it sank his fortune and while as president he appointed people who took advantage of that.

[BrinnerDang]

Fun Fact: Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on this day, November 30, in 1835, and is considered the 'Father of American Literature'. Happy 189th birthday!!!

[donaldjohnlong]

President Grant is my mother’s great great Grand uncle.

[gonefishing]

This guy always has interesting stuff and he presents stuff very well. One of the best channels out there

[brandondaniel]

Imagine going through a Civil War and being a hero and then becoming the president and then making a bad investment thinking that you screwed up your legacy and the wealth potential for your family. And then late in the fourth quarter being able to tell your story and being able to redeem yourself and leave something for your family.I imagine seven days of absolute bliss and then he was ready to go home

[Clarinetboy]

Grant Avenue in Springfield, Missouri is named for President Grant.

[bombasticbuster]

I didnt know they tried to start Social Security in the 1880s? 😅 That whiskey & cigars are hard as hell on the throat!

[robertoslama]

These shorts are perfect. Don't stop, homie.

[nukarr]

Back story on Origin of Samuel Clemens pen name - On RIVER BOATS big Paddle wheelers - they need a certain clearance to operate safely & Boat men with LONG POLES when depth was GOOD - would shout MARK TWAIN indicating 20+feet of water depth so paddle wheels could operate safely.
Clemens wanted to known as a writer with DEPTH so he took that Slang Boatsmens phrase adopted it as his pen name - using the metaphor of MARK TWAIN to indicate he had DEPTH as a writer.

[angelofknowledge]

The house where he wrote the memoir is a museum in New York

[itsamysticlife]

Everyone knows that Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens, but did you know Ulysses S. Grants birth name?
Hyrum Ulysses Grant.
He was registered at West Point under his famous name. Some say it was his father and others say it was his sponsor that did the name change. It's said that the change to U.S. Grant was to increase his chances of being accepted into West Point Military Academy.

[HisLady]

My son got me here. I love this channel

[ImpulseIVXX]

I really thought we were about to get "and that's why we call giving money a 'grant'" 😅

[Patrick-xjvo]

The best book written on the civil war Grants recollection of events is invaluable to history

[UMCPastorMNM]

Copy sitting on my desk as i type this. Great book.

[EJBanks]

...thought he was gonna say "that's why they call free money a 'grant'"