Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the US. The first man to serve two terms in forty years. What would you have asked this determined man?

I would like to know if there were any security concerns and issues. With President Grant being a General in the Civil War, what measures were taken ,above the normal for the time, to assure a disgruntled Confederate soilder or angry southerner didn't have or carry out any assassination plan.

I always liked what I knew of President Grant - if for no other reason, because he was an opinionated bastard who was never afraid to question authority when appropriate. Here's what I would ask Mr. President Grant, 1. You opposed the Mexican-American War (which you fought in) as being "one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation".

How would you gauge our current war against Iraq? More unjust? Less unjust?

How would you compare the two conflicts? 2. Why did you really resign from the army in 1854?

Was it really because you were caught intoxicated? 3. You were President during the economic Panic of 1863 - which bears many similarities to our modern economic troubles.

You received mixed reviews for your actions to help fix the economy. So what would you advise our current president? What actions do regret taking/ not taking?

What would you have done differently? 4. And of course - the question which I have for most civil war era Presidents: What do you think of our current President being a black man?

You know, Grant was far from perfect being as drunk and corrupt as he was. But one thing I always liked about him was that he always expressed remorse and regret about his mistakes. I think he had a lot of character, for all his faults.

And I think he was a fine president in many ways.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.