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In the summer of 2003 Ulysses S. Grant made news all across the country he had, in his lifetime, done so much to reunite: Some of his descendants, a good part of the more serious press, and the Grant Monument Association objected strongly to pop diva Beyonce Knowles, accompanied by a "troupe of barely clad dancers," using his tomb in New York City's Riverside Park as the background for a raucous, "lascivious," nationally televised July Fourth concert.

- From Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero by Michael Korda