President Ulysses S. Grant boasted that he only knew two tunes. "One of them is Yankee Doodle.' The other isn't."
President Grover Cleveland went on a fishing trip with two friends. Before they left, they agreed that whoever caught the first fish would treat teh others to dinner. Later President Cleveland complained that his friends were not fair. "They both had bites," he explained, "but did not pull up on the fish." "Then I suppose you had to buy dinner for everyone," said a listener. "No," President Cleveland answered with a smile. "I didn't have any bait on my hook!"
The most famous Silent CAl story came from a White House dinner. A woman came over to President Coolidge and said, "I bet someone taht I could get you to say three words." "You lose." was his answer.
The British prime minister Winston Churchill was a frequent guest at the White House while Roosevelt was president. At one dinner, the woman seeted next to Churchill kept complaining about his policies. By the end of the meal, she was quite furious with him. "Mr. Churchill," she shouted, "If I was your wife, I'd put poison in your coffee!" "Madame," Churchill declared, "if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"