Responding to criticism of Grant after Shiloh, Lincoln had said, " I can't spare this man.

To date, Grant continues to take off her shoes midway through performances, as she has said " it is just more comfortable.

In the April 2012 issue of Playboy, long time Batman writer Grant Morrison said that " Gayness is built into Batman.

Bernie Grant, a Labour Member of Parliament said that he was " totally pro-Commonwealth and anti-European Union ".

Grant said he dismounted and followed it to the loch, but only saw ripples.

" I don't think our players have seen anything like this since junior high school ," said Vikings head coach Bud Grant.

Grant is said to have inherited a degree of introversion from his reserved, even " uncommonly detached " mother ( she never took occasion to visit the White House during her son's presidency ).

In what would become one of the most notable conversations of the war, Sherman said simply: " Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?

Grant said of the battle in his memoirs, " I have always regretted that the last assault at Cold Harbor was ever made.

As Lee considered surrender, Longstreet advised him of his belief that Grant would treat them fairly, but as Lee rode toward Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, Longstreet said, " General, if he does not give us good terms, come back and let us fight it out.

Miami rounded out its 2001 – 02 season roster with players well past their prime such as Rod Strickland, Chris Gatling, Jim Jackson, LaPhonso Ellis and Kendall Gill along with Mourning, Jones, Grant and Carter, whom the Heat signed to a controversial three-year deal that many said was far too much for the young guard.

Years later, in a show at the Pompidou Center called " Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences ", an aerial shot of Grant in the cornfield, with a " road cutting straight through the cornrows to the edge of the screen ", was said to draw on Léon Spilliaert's " Le Paquebot ou L ' Estran ", which features " alternating strips of sand and ocean blue bands stretch to the edge of the canvas.

" A. H. Weiler of The New York Times made it a " Critic's Pick " and said it was the " year's most scenic, intriguing and merriest chase "; Weiler complimented the two leads: " Cary Grant, a veteran member of the Hitchcock acting varsity, was never more at home than in this role of the advertising-man-on-the-lam.

The practice of strategy was advanced by generals such as Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, all of whom had been influenced by the feats of Napoleon ( Thomas " Stonewall " Jackson was said to have carried a book of Napoleon's maxims with him.

Quoted in the New York Herald on September 2, 1876, Grant said, " I regard Custer's Massacre as a sacrifice of troops, brought on by Custer himself, that was wholly unnecessary – wholly unnecessary.

Andrew Porter grandson Civil War era General Horace Porter was aide de camp to U. S. Grant and is said to be the author of the definitive account of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House.

It is said that Robert E. Lee and U. S. Grant camped with their troops at a grove of live oak trees on the banks of Turkey Creek, which is now known as Treadway Park.

* In May 2010 the new Coalition government said that the ' Labour's 13-year war on the motorist is over ' and that the new government ' pledged to scrap public funding for speed cameras ' In July Mike Penning, the Road safety minister reduced the Road Safety Grant for the current year to Local Authorities from £ 95 million to £ 57 million saying that local authorities had relied too heavily on safety cameras for far too long and that he was pleased that some councils were now focusing on other road safety measures.

Time said " Grant and Dunne cannot overcome the ten-little-fingers-and-ten-little-toes plot.

However, the band felt that SST did not devote enough attention to its releases ; Hüsker Dü drummer Grant Hart said after the band left the label, " I think there's a little reluctance on their part to let anything get a little more attention than Black Flag.

This remark caused great offence to the Montserratians and others ; Labour MP Bernie Grant said that " She sounds like a mouthpiece for an old 19th century colonial and Conservative government ".

Michell said that " Hugh does Richard better than anyone else, and Richard writes Hugh better than anyone else ", and that Grant is " one of the only actors who can speak Richard's lines perfectly ".

Some American critics said that there was no Hollywood star in the movie — no Bergman, no Grant ; the cast did however include renowned international film stars ( Jade, Piccoli, Noiret ), whose previous successes had been primarily in France.

" I wrote ... urging you to ... destroy railroads, machine-shops, & c., not to build them ," Grant said.

Lincoln closely supervised the war effort, especially the selection of top generals, including commanding general Ulysses S. Grant.

Each time a general failed, Lincoln substituted another until finally Grant succeeded in 1865.

President Lincoln ( center right ) with, from left, Generals Sherman, Grant and Admiral Porter – 1868 painting of events aboard the River Queen ( steamboat ) | River Queen in March, 1865

General Ulysses S. Grant's victories at the Battle of Shiloh and in the Vicksburg campaign impressed Lincoln and made Grant a strong candidate to head the Union Army.

" With Grant in command, Lincoln felt the Union Army could relentlessly pursue a series of coordinated offensives in multiple theaters, and have a top commander who agreed on the use of black troops.

Nevertheless, Lincoln was concerned that Grant might be considering a candidacy for President in 1864, as McClellan was.

The high casualty figures of the Union alarmed the North ; Grant had lost a third of his army, and Lincoln asked what Grant's plans were, to which the general replied, " I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.

Lincoln authorized Grant to target the Confederate infrastructure — such as plantations, railroads, and bridges — hoping to destroy the South's morale and weaken its economic ability to continue fighting.

Lincoln provided Grant with more troops and mobilized his party to renew its support of Grant in the war effort.

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

Some of the parks along the waterfront include Lincoln Park, Grant Park, Burnham Park and Jackson Park.

General Ulysses S. Grant and President Abraham Lincoln initially opposed the plan until Sherman convinced them of its necessity.

By the end of August 1861, Grant was given charge of the District of Cairo by Maj. Gen John C. Fremont, an outside Lincoln appointment, who viewed Grant as " a man of dogged persistence, and iron will.

After President Lincoln relieved Frémont from command, Grant attacked Fort Belmont taking 3, 114 Union troops by boat on November 7, 1861, and initially took the fort, but his army was later pushed back to Cairo by the reinforced Confederate General Gideon J. Pillow.

With these victories, President Abraham Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers.

Lincoln was also alarmed at the level of casualties, and queried Halleck as to Grant's potential responsibility for them ; Grant was criticized for his decision to keep the Union Army bivouacked rather than entrenched.

Charles A. Dana, an investigative agent for Secretary of War Stanton at the time, interviewed Grant ; Dana related to Lincoln and Stanton that Grant appeared " self-possessed and eager to make war.

President Lincoln demanded the order be revoked, and Grant rescinded it 21 days after issuance.

During the Vicksburg campaign, Grant assumed responsibility for refugee-contraband slaves who were dislodged by the war and vulnerable to Confederate marauders ; President Lincoln had also authorized their recruitment into the Union Army.

President Lincoln put Grant in command of the newly formed Division of the Mississippi in October 1863 ; Grant was then effectively in charge of the entire western war front for the Union, except for Louisiana.