To: MoralSense
Presidential Tobacco Preferences
George Washington 1789-1797 unknown
John Adams 1797-1801 cigar
Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809 unknown
James Madison 1809-1817 cigar
James Monroe 1817-1825 unknown
John Quincy Adams 1825-1829 cigar
Andrew Jackson 1829-1837 cigar
Martin Van Buren 1837-1841 pipe
William Henry Harrison 1841 pipe
John Tyler 1841-1845 cigar
James Polk 1845-1849 none
Zachary Taylor 1849-1850 cigar
Millard Fillmore 1850-1853 none
Franklin Pierce 1853-1857 unknown
James Buchanan 1857-1861 unknown
Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865 unknown
Andrew Johnson 1865-1869 cigar
Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877 cigar
Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881 unknown
Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885 cigar
Grover Cleveland 1885-1889 chewing tobacco
Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893 cigar
Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 chewing tobacco
William McKinley 1897-1901 cigar
Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 none
Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 none
Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 cigar
Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 cigar
Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 cigar
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 cigarette
Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 none
Dwight Eisenhower 1953-1961 cigarette
John F. Kennedy 1961-1963 cigar
Lyndon Johnson 1963-1969 cigar
Richard Nixon 1969-1974 cigar
Gerald Ford 1974-1977 pipe
Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 none
Ronald Reagan 1981-1989 none
George Bush 1989-1993 none
Bill Clinton 1993- cigar
34 posted on
05/02/2003 12:08:06 PM PDT by
CJ Wolf
To: CJ Wolf
On Kennedy and cigars...
One day in 1961, shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the president took legendary action that has become a classic anecdote of cigar love. JFK called his cigar-smoking press secretary Pierre Salinger into the Oval Office and said, "I need a lot of cigars." "How many, Mr. President?" "About a thousand. Tomorrow morning, call all your friends who have cigars and just get as many as you can." Salinger rushed out and grabbed as many H. Upmann petits as he could find. The next morning there was an urgent message for him to enter the Oval Office immediately. "How did you do on the cigars last night?" asked Kennedy. "Mr. President," replied Salinger, "I was very successful. I got eleven hundred." With that, Kennedy opened a drawer in his desk and pulled out a decree banning all Cuban products from entry into the United States. "Good," he replied. "Now that I have enough cigars to last awhile, I can sign this!"
Quote from San Francisco Examiner magazine, December 15, 1996, pp. 40-42
To: CJ Wolf
You skipped Taft.
58 posted on
05/02/2003 12:26:28 PM PDT by
SoDak
To: CJ Wolf
Grover Cleveland 1893-1897 chewing tobacco Ahhh! The last common man elected President!
To: CJ Wolf
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, who own and operate General Washington's estate, state that there is no evidence that he smoked. There are no references in the myriad personal reflections of his friends and family, or in his diaries, and there are no heirloom pieces that would suggest that he did. But he did enjoy a good Madeira with a meal, and distilled his own rye and beer...
To: CJ Wolf
Grover's my man... chaw baby!
96 posted on
05/02/2003 1:19:28 PM PDT by
GOP_1900AD
(Un-PC even to "Conservatives!" - Right makes right)
To: CJ Wolf
You skipped Wm Howard Taft.
105 posted on
05/02/2003 1:25:57 PM PDT by
johnb838
(Understand the root causes of American Anger)
To: CJ Wolf
I swear I've seen old film footage of Teddy Roosevelt smoking, I think a cigar. May not have been a "habit" per se, but I could swear I've seen pic's of him puffing away.
To: CJ Wolf
"Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909 none
Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921 none"
You left a gap, 1909-1913 . . . this belongs to William Howard Taft - did he smoke? Preference?
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