[Charles Martel]

For four years there was a steady traffic in rum-filled oranges smuggled into the WH during official functions.

Did you happen to see the new Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition? There was an interesting bit about illicit liquor deliveries to the U.S. Capitol Building.

(insert Captain Renault pic here)

[elcid1970]

“Did you happen to see the new Ken Burns documentary on Prohibition? There was an interesting bit about illicit liquor deliveries to the U.S. Capitol Building.”

Capitol liquor deliveries were replaced by a Scotch pipeline during the Ted Kennedy decades. It has since been rerouted to his eternal flame in Arlington.

;^)