History doesn't repeat itself...............

 .......................................but it often rhymes.*

After a tumultuous first term in office, Grant occasionally dreamed of returning to his farm in St. Louis.  "I was not anxious to be President a second term," he confided to a reporter, "but I consented to receive the nomination because I thought that was the best way of discovering whether my countrymen . . . really believed all that was alleged against my administration and against myself personally."

-Ron Chernow, Grant

*Ed Note:  saying attributed to Mark Twain, but who knows for certain.