Posted on 12/09/2023 11:31:30 AM PST by RandFan
@historyinmemes
Winston Churchill's doctors note that allowed him unlimited alcohol during the prohibition in the United States, 1932.
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Yeah, like our leaders weren’t drinking like fish.
My understanding is the reason for this, was because he walked out into oncoming traffic and got his bell rang pretty good.
He forgot we drive on the “wrong” side of the road.
“Keep on hand.” Well, you never know when there will be an emergency need for medication....
So he had a doctors note. Big Deal. It was still against the (useless) law.
What is that, a “quadruple” a meal?
bootleggers made regular deliveries to congress
all without a doctor’s note
it was granny’s tonic
for medicinal purposes
Churchill was an alcoholic, Goering was a junkie, and Hilter was a tweaker.
“Churchill was an alcoholic, Goering was a junkie, and Hilter was a tweaker.”
Stalin was an alcoholic, Roosevelt was on Absinthe, and yes Churchill was an alcoholic, started the day with champagne and a cigar before breakfast.
True on all three counts; and only one of them won (for which the world should be eternally grateful).
Churchill usually drank top shelf stuff; Stalin often drank swill.
I still can't get over Gary Oldman portraying him as a wuss. Shame to you on that one, Gary.
“It was still against the (useless) law.” No it wasn’t. Doctors could prescribe whiskey for medicinal purposes.
He advocated for Britain’s interests first and foremost - like Trump does America’s. For that I’ll give him credit.
However, Churchill, who relaxed by building stone walls, (directed) the American’s (FDR, Dwight) to do certain things that in hindsight one might argue we should have not done. It is fascinating that our response to Pearl Harbor was to go and fight in Europe, sending poorly trained men to their deaths in North Africa. There were people in the feral givernment who believed Churchill was trying to get US to help Britain first preserve (avoid losses) and then restore the British Empire.
“All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
Winston Churchill
Very easy mistake to make. You don’t realize how much you just do things like look for oncoming traffic by instinct and over there, your instincts betray you. I nearly got turned into a hood ornament more than once.
A Journalist - he wrote for tons of newspapers and magazines and wrote literally thousands of articles.
A Writer - he wrote a lot of books and won the nobel prize for literature. If you look at the amounts he was paid and put them in today's terms, he was quite a successful writer.
A Soldier - Sandhurst grad....fought on the Northwest Frontier in Afghanistan/India. Fought in the battle of Omdurman and personally gunned down 3 dervishes who were charging him with his mauser C-96 broomhandle, fought again in South Africa during the Boer War and made a daring lone escape from a POW camp dodging a bounty on his head, fought again in the trenches in WWI as a Battalion Commander.
A politician - served in Parliament for several decades and held just about every cabinet post before becoming prime minister. His accomplishments in each of the above would have been a perfectly reasonable career for a man - and he did all 4.
He drank a lot. He wasn't a drunkard. He wasn't out of control with it. It didn't stop him from accomplishing a tremendous amount.
Churchill was a pretty good amateur bricklayer, but I don't think he ever did any stonemasonry work except to lay a ceremonial cornerstone here and there.
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