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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4531896, member: 101855&quot;]He failed after he left the presidency too. He got involved in a Wall Street investment firm with a “Bernie Madoff” type character who ripped off Grant and all of his clients. Grant was left broke. It was about that time that he discovered he had throat cancer from smoking all of those cigars for so many years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mark Twain made arrangements to sell his memoirs. During the last months of his life, Grant struggled to write them. He finished a week or so before he died. The book realized a $50,000 profit to his family, and he left them financially secure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grant always seemed to be a spectacular success, during the Civil War or with his book, or a spectacular failure. He could never seem to be “happily mediocre.”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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