Drum Beat (1954)

Edgar Stehli: Jesse Grant

Quotes 

• Johnny MacKay : [while waiting to see President Grant at the White House, MacKay talks to the man sitting next to him]  Have you met the President?

  [the man nods, MacKay moves closer to him] 

  Johnny MacKay : What's he like?

  Jesse Grant : Plain as a mud fence. Smokes like a chimney and... drinks now and then, too. I'd say he fits better in some tent than... this place.

  Johnny MacKay : What are you, a missionary?

  Jesse Grant : Me?

  [chuckles] 

  Johnny MacKay : You don't act like you like our President.

  Jesse Grant : You're wrong there, son.

  [pauses] 

  Jesse Grant : I'm his father.