Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
Citations
Hayes, Rutherford B. Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, edited by Charles Richard Williams, vol. 3, Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1924, p. 11.
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes was an American politician and attorney who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor of Ohio. A lawyer and staunch abolitionist, he had defended refugee slaves in court proceedings during the antebellum years. He negotiated the political agreement to end federal support of Reconstruction.