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To: Sub-Driver
“the booziest president since FDR” ........"

What was LBJ?

Some sort of piker?

He traveled with a CASE of Cutty Sark on AF1.

Now that's a drinker.

BTW, I had no idea FDR was considered "boozy".

43 posted on 05/01/2018 4:26:14 PM PDT by boop ("I said give me the brandy!")
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To: boop
BTW, I had no idea FDR was considered "boozy".

He did end prohibition.

And maybe more than that if you can believe what you read on the Internet:

“Many people—and this is recorded—say ‘the president made the worst martinis I’ve ever tasted,’” Roosevelt’s grandson Curtis told the History Channel in 2005. And plenty of people had a chance to try them; during the war, Roosevelt opened his liquor cabinet for guests nearly every night. But his booziest affair probably occurred when he pulled out all the stops and threw a toga party for his 52nd birthday. Responding to conservatives who called him a dictator, Roosevelt wore a laurel crown. Afterward, a speechwriter lightheartedly addressed Roosevelt as “Dear Caesar” in his letters. The president eventually asked him to stop, according to historian Conrad Black, “fearing the press might get hold of such a letter and misconstrue it.”

49 posted on 05/01/2018 4:40:51 PM PDT by x
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