...ot in? asked the usher. No, answered the President; you will say nothing of the kind. I don't lie myself, and I won't have any one lie for me. A staff-officer inquired of Ingalls whether General Grant , when at West Point, gave any promise of his future greatness. Ingalls replied: Grant was such a quiet, unassuming fellow when a cadet that nobody would have picked him out as one who was destined ...