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Mint Juleps with Teddy Roosevelt: The Complete History of Presidential Drinking
Amazon.com ^ | 10/19/2014 | Mark Will-Weber

Posted on 10/19/2014 3:57:28 PM PDT by skeptoid

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A little more at the source,
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Hardcover: 300 pages, $20.51
Publisher: Regnery History (October 20, 2014)

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1 posted on 10/19/2014 3:57:28 PM PDT by skeptoid
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To: skeptoid

What is the present President’s alcoholic preference?


2 posted on 10/19/2014 3:58:49 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: skeptoid

Especially during Prohibition. What politician couldn’t get their favorite brand of alcohol during that time?


3 posted on 10/19/2014 4:00:43 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: chajin

Sterno


4 posted on 10/19/2014 4:00:57 PM PDT by apoxonu
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To: chajin

I heard somewhere Obama likes a watered down Shirley Temple (in Pink!) waiting for him on a small patio near the 18th hole.


5 posted on 10/19/2014 4:01:23 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: chajin

Apparently it’s “honey Ale” (retch).


6 posted on 10/19/2014 4:01:40 PM PDT by skeptoid (the thot plickens)
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To: chajin

Panther Whizz.


7 posted on 10/19/2014 4:04:06 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: chajin
correction:

White House Honey Ale (after a couple of toks in the Rose Garden)

8 posted on 10/19/2014 4:05:53 PM PDT by skeptoid (the thot plickens)
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To: skeptoid
TR drank mint juleps? I would have taken him for a Scotch neat kind of guy.
9 posted on 10/19/2014 4:09:18 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: skeptoid
Nondrinkers are terrible presidents. Discuss.
10 posted on 10/19/2014 4:17:44 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Lurker; MeshugeMikey
Panther Whizz.

Courtesy ping to the brewer.

11 posted on 10/19/2014 4:19:07 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Clappin' the Blues (remix)" [slightly NSFW] - http://youtu.be/p9d2iHSfRmE)
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12 posted on 10/19/2014 4:26:49 PM PDT by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: skeptoid

Some of us suspicioned that Bill Clinton may have been drunk when he hurt his knee.


13 posted on 10/19/2014 4:41:46 PM PDT by ansel12 ( LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nationÂ’s electorate for democrats)
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To: SkyDancer

Heck, after Washington got rid of the compet...er, put down the Whiskey Rebellion, he had one of the largest distilleries in the new country at Mount Vernon.


14 posted on 10/19/2014 4:53:31 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke
Gotta love our Founding Fathers. LOL

But I was thinking more of the hypocricy of politicians during Prohibition. They got theirs but the common folk couldn't have their beer after work.

15 posted on 10/19/2014 4:58:45 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: SkyDancer

Herbert Hoover supported Prohibition, but could stop by the Belgian embassy for a drink. Foreign embassies were not required to observe Prohibition, and the Belgians were grateful for his efforts to food to people who would have starved otherwise.


16 posted on 10/19/2014 5:03:04 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: skeptoid

I’ve always wondered what a mint julep tastes like. One of these days I’ll just have to find out.


17 posted on 10/19/2014 5:04:43 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Brother Cracker

18 posted on 10/19/2014 5:09:43 PM PDT by skeptoid (the thot plickens)
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To: ansel12

Wasn’t he hanging with Greg Norman at 2am?


19 posted on 10/19/2014 5:14:45 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Lurker
Amen....and thanks for the Plug


20 posted on 10/19/2014 6:12:39 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill)
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