Hey, you guys want to hear an incredible story that I was just reading about in the Washington

post and in the Guardian and in Newsur and in biography and in the Sacramento Bee and in

NPR.

According to all of these news reports that came out coincidentally just over the past

few days, Eulissie's S. Grant was arrested while he was president.

In 1872, yeah, according to all of these news outlets, President Grant used to enjoy

driving his own horse-drawn carriage and apparently he'd like to drive fast.

And one time he got arrested for speeding.

The arresting officer William West reportedly said,

I'm very sorry, Mr. President, to have to do it for you are the chief of the nation and

I am nothing but a policeman.

But duty is duty, sir, and I will have to place you under arrest.

What a story about the rule of law over a nation of men.

Isn't that weird and funny and almost certainly apocryphal?

It's an incredible story because it's not credible.

I say it's almost certainly apocryphal because the only evidence that it ever happened

is a newspaper anecdote from the Washington Evening Star in 1908, 36 years after the alleged

incident with the president occurred.

You would think that if the sitting president of the United States were arrested, it might

have made some news at the time.

At least a headliner too.

That someone might have mentioned it or written about it even once over the ensuing 35 years.

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