Note 589 — Chapter XXII · GREELEY NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT 1872
Reading edition
Letters of, Vol. 2, p. 57.
"There was undoubtedly great corruption and maladministration in the country in the time of President Grant. Selfish men and ambitious men got the ear of that simple man and confiding President. They studied Grant, some of them, as the shoemaker measures the foot of his customer."—Hoar, Autobiography, Vol. 1, p. 197.