I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking it all down.
Source: Speaking to a Republican banquet in New York several months before Garfield's assassination; in Presidential Anecdotes, by Paul F. Boller, Jr., 1981.
-- Chester A Arthur, (Oct 5 1830-1886), US president (21st); He was the 21st U.S. president 1881-85; became president after the assassination of James Garfield; supported civil service reform, 1883.