Posted on 02/16/2021 12:41:00 PM PST by mylife
Now, before we dive into things, there are more than a few presidents who won’t be making an appearance because they either never had a drink or resisted the urge to imbibe until they left office. The Sober Collective includes Abraham Lincoln (big water guy,) noted Diet Coke enthusiasts Donald Trump and George W. Bush, Benjamin Harrison (a teetotaler with a thing for tea,) as well noted ice cream aficionado Joe Biden
We’re also excluding Jimmy Carter, who occasionally had a sip of white wine when partaking in a toast but who had all liquor removed from the White House once he moved in. When you consider he’s 96 years old and still helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity, it seemed to work out pretty well for him (and his brother Billy did enough drinking for the both of them.) Finally, there’s Rutherford B. Hayes, which surprised me, because I sort of assumed a dude with that name would be a fan of throwing back a few.
That leaves us with 38 presidents, so without further ado, let’s do some ranking.
38. Richard Nixon
Nixon was a red wine guy, and as someone with the same taste in vino, I figured we’d get along swimmingly—at least at first glance.
It turns out Nixon was shady AF, and no, I’m not talking about anything related to Watergate. What I am talking about was his tendency to uncork an expensive bottle of wine for himself while entertaining and directing the White House staff to only serve his guests the cheap stuff.
That, my friends, is some bullshit, and as a result, Nixon finds himself in the basement here.
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Indeed!!
What?!!
We’re in the worst weather disaster in south Texas Since the last bad hurricane
It’s 18 degrees in San Antonio wither no relief in sight til Friday. 3
Days from now
Idiots at the power
Company are meeting to negotiate price
Gouging
Biden hasn’t been heard from
Could we get a f in break?
Party?
The funest POTUS EVER was a teetotaler. DONALD J. TRUMP
His estate, according to the estimable Modern Drunkard, was at one point America’s biggest whiskey producer, bottling (barreling?) an astonishing 11,000 gallons in 1799 alone.
Hancock was never President but he was a big-time wine smuggler. Madeira. Cheated the Brits of their taxes on it so when they commandeered his sloop he was outraged because he wasn't actually smuggling any when they took it.
I give those guys a pass because drinking alcohol was safer than drinking water at the time. That's why I drink beer today, because you can't be too careful.
Ole Hickory. Tennessee sippin whiskey. I’m imbibing in his memory right now.
I thought for sure US Grant would be near the top of this list.
I have to throw in Winston Churchill for honorable mention.
Churchill's drinking was much exaggerate, especially by him.
That picture now makes me think the fly on Mike Pence at the vice presidential debate knew something we didn’t know.
I think I’d rather bend an elbow with Otis than 90% of our ex-POTUSes.
Potable water was often at a premium in those days. Cholera outbreaks were a common occurrence.
There are several men that I would love to imbibe with, to include Benjamin Franklin, Ronald Reagan, and Sam Houston. Especially Franklin, he was a rock star, usually in the company of women.
One of my best drinking buddies was Wolfgang, the owner of the Hotel Ostseeblick in Lutjenburg, Germany. I spent many nights there, while I was waiting for my girlfriend to get off work. She was a waitress, just like in the Zevon song, Lawyers, Guns, & Money. I helped Wolfgang close down the bar around 4 AM, just as the sun was coming up. Then I went to my gf's house for breakfast: zwiebelrost (raw ground beef seasoned with onions and onion salt) on toast with coffee.
A most enjoyable, and memorable summer (1979), indeed.
I'd venture to say that 99.999% of people under 55 have no bleeping clue to what you're talking about...lol. I always enjoyed the humor of Foster Brooks, too. Couldn't do that today, way too politically incorrect.
Do you have a source?
William Manchester in volume two of his Churchill biography, “Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940”. He describes Churchill as a “sensible, if unorthodox drinker”. Churchill would imbibe throughout the course of the day, but his family never saw him drunk and he frequently derided men seen intoxicated in public. He himself said “I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” According to Manchester, Churchill promoted the idea of him being a hard-drinking man in part to give him a manly image and offset his frequently getting emotional and crying in public.
None!
I don’t think so. He specifically says about drinking with Obama, to put the politics aside.
I think the Gavin Palone character in Seinfeld is the last funny drunk that I can recall on TV.
Though he was certainly no drunkard, he could still drink me under the table with his steadiness.;-)
Lot's of fun.
Yes well he has the advantage of experience over youth. And I agree completely on your assessment of Manchester's work.
Thank you. I'll definitely look into it and may add it to my reading list.
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