National Park Service employees clean the statue of Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War commander and the nation's 18th president, on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. The statue, which faces westward toward the Lincoln Memorial down the long expanse of the mall, was dedicated on April 27, 1922, the centennial of Grant's birth. Sculptor Henry Shrady needed 20 years to complete the statue.
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