I heard that McAuliffe's reply to the German request for him to surrender at Bastogne was not actually 'Nuts' as often quoted but something far pithier.
Then I met the man around 1974, when he came into my garage to have his Chrysler serviced. (At first he was just some old guy who happened to be named McAuliffe, then I saw the multi-starred bumper sticker on the Chrysler and put 2 and 2 together, when I asked him if he was THE General McAuliffe.)
I just never had the nerve to ask him what he said there at Bastogne, though. He seemed too much of a gentleman, somehow. Someone here must know the answer to that one.